s for her cargo--Ormond attempts
to poison me--Ormond's _suicide_--His burial according
to African customs 222

CHAP. XXXIII.--A visit to the MATACAN river in quest of
slaves--My reception by the king--His appearance--Scramble
for my gifts--How slaves are sometimes trapped on a hasty
hunt--I visit the MATACAN WIZARD; his cave, leopard, blind
boy--Deceptions and jugglery--Fetiches--A scale of African
intellect 227

CHAP. XXXIV.--What became of the Esperanza's officers and
crew--The destruction of my factory at Kambia by fire--I lose
all but my slaves--the incendiary detected--Who instigated the
deed--Ormond's relatives--DEATH OF ESTHER--I go to sea in a
schooner from Sierra Leone--How I acquire a cargo of slaves
in the Rio Nunez without money 233

CHAP. XXXV.--I escape capture--Symptoms of mutiny and detection
of the plot--How we put it down 240

CHAP. XXXVI.--A "white squall"--I land my cargo near St. Jago de
Cuba--Trip to Havana on horseback--My consignees and their prompt
arrangements--success of my voyage--Interference of the French
Consul--I am _nearly_ arrested--How things were managed, of old,
in Cuba 244

CHAP. XXXVII.--A long holiday--I am wrecked on a key--My
rescue by salvors--New Providence--I ship on the SAN PABLO,
from St. Thomas's, as sailing master--Her captain and
his arrangements--Encounter a transport--Benefit of the
small-pox--Mozambique Channel--Take cargo near QUILLIMANE--How
we managed to get slaves--Illness of our captain--The
small-pox breaks out on our brig--Its fatality 248

CHAP. XXXVIII.--Our captain _longs_ for calomel, and how I get
it from a Scotchman--Our captain's last will and testament--We
are chased by a British cruiser--How we out-manoevred and
crippled her--Death of our captain--Cargo landed and the San
Pablo burnt 255

CHAP. XXXIX.--My returns from the voyage $12,000, and how I apply
them--A custom-house encounter which loses me LA CONCHITA and
my money--I get command of a slaver for AYUDAH--LA ESTRELLA--I
consign her to the notorious DA SOUZA or CHA-CHA--His history
and mode of life in Africa--His gambling houses and women--I
keep aloof