hole party 295

CHAP. XLVII.--MONSIEUR GERMAINE, the forger--His trick--Cause of
Germaine's arrest--An adroit and rapid forgery--Its detection 300

CHAP. XLVIII.--Plan of escape--Germaine's project against
Babette--A new scheme for New Year's night--Passports--PIETRO
NAZZOLINI and DOMINICO ANTONETTI--Preparations for our "French
leave"--How the attempt eventuated 304

CHAP. XLIX.--Condition of the sentinel when he was found--His
story--Prison researches next day--How we avoid detection--Louis
Philippe receives my petition favorably--Germaine's philosophic
pilfering and principles--His plan to rob the SANTISSIMA CASA OF
LORETTO--He designs making an attempt on the Emperor Nicholas--I
am released and banished from France 310

CHAP. L.--I go to Portugal, and return in disguise to Marseilles,
in order to embark for Africa--I resolve to continue a slaver--A
Marseilles hotel during the cholera--DOCTOR DU JEAN and MADAME
DUPREZ--Humors of the _table d'hote_--Coquetry and flirtation--A
phrenological _denouement_ 316

CHAP. LI.--I reach Goree, and hasten to Sierra Leone, where I
become a coast-pilot to GALLINAS--Site of that celebrated
factory--_Don_ PEDRO BLANCO--His monopoly of the Vey
country--Slave-trade and its territorial extent prior to
the AMERICAN SCHEME OF COLONIZATION--Blanco's arrangements,
telegraphs, &c. at Gallinas--Appearance and mode of life--Blanco
and the Lords' prayer in Latin 324

CHAP. LII.--Anecdotes of Blanco--Growth of slave-trade in
the VEY country--Local wars--AMARAR and SHIAKAR--Barbarities
of the natives 330

CHAP. LIII.--I visit LIBERIA, and observe a new phase of negro
development--I go to NEW SESTROS, and establish trade--Trouble
with Prince FREEMAN--The value of gunpowder physic 335

CHAP. LIV.--My establishment at New Sestros, and how I created
the slave-trade in that region--The ordeal of SAUCY-WOOD--My
mode of attacking a superstitious usage, and of saving the
victims--The story of BARRAH and his execution 339

CHAP. LV.--No river at New Sestros--Beach--Kroomen and
Fishmen--Bushmen--Kroo boats--I engage a fleet of them for
my factory--I ship a cargo of slaves in a hurry--My mode
of operating--Value of rum