shipped--Go on
board naked--hearty feed before embarkation--Stowage--Messes--Mode
of eating--Grace--Men and women separated--Attention to health,
cleanliness, ventilation--Singing and amusements--Daily
purification of the vessel--Night, order and silence preserved
by negro constables--Use and disuse of handcuffs--Brazilian
slavers--(Note on condition of slavers since the treaty with
Spain) 99

CHAP. XII.--How a cargo of slaves is landed in Cuba--Detection
avoided--"_Gratificaciones_." Clothes distributed--Vessel burnt
or sent in as a coaster, or in distress--A slave's first glimpse
of a Cuban plantation--Delight with food and dress--Oddity of
beasts of burden and vehicles--A slave's first interview
with a negro _postilion_--the postilion's sermon in favor of
slavery--Dealings with the anchorites--How tobacco smoke blinds
public functionaries--My popularity on the Rio Pongo--Ormond's
enmity to me 107

CHAP. XIII.--I become intimate with "Country princes" and receive
their presents--Royal marriages--Insulting to refuse a proffered
wife--I am pressed to wed a princess and my diplomacy to escape
the sable noose--My partner agrees to marry the princess--The
ceremonial of wooing and wedding in African high life--COOMBA 110

CHAP. XIV.--JOSEPH, my partner, has to fly from Africa--How
I save our property--My visit to the BAGERS--their primitive
mode of life--Habits--Honesty--I find my property unguarded and
safe--My welcome in the village--Gift of a goat--Supper--Sleep--A
narrow escape in the surf on the coast--the skill of KROOMEN 118

CHAP. XV.--I study the institution of SLAVERY IN AFRICA--Man
becomes a "legal tender," or the coin of Africa--Slave wars,
how they are directly promoted by the peculiar adaptation
of the trade of the great commercial nations--Slavery an
immemorial institution in Africa--How and why it will always be
retained--Who are made _home_ slaves--Jockeys and brokers--Five
sixths of Africa in domestic bondage 126

CHAP. XVI.--Caravan announced--MAMI-DE-YONG, from Footha-Yallon,
uncle of Ahmah-de-Bellah--My ceremonious reception--My
preparations for the chief--Coffee--his school and
teaching--NARRATIVE OF HIS TRIP TO TIMBUCTOO--Queer
black-board map--prolix story teller--Timbuctoo and its
trade--Slavery