and mock coral beads--Return
of the cruiser 344

CHAP. LVI.--I go on a pleasure voyage in the Brilliant,
accompanied by GOVERNOR FINDLEY--Murder of the Governor--I
fit out an expedition to revenge his death--A fight with
the beach negroes--We burn five towns--A disastrous retreat--I
am wounded--Vindication of Findley's memory 349

CHAP. LVII.--What Don Pedro Blanco thought of my
Quixotism--Painful effects of my wound--Blanco's
liberality to Findley's family--My slave _nurseries_
on the coast--Digby--I pack nineteen negroes on my launch,
and set sail for home--Disastrous voyage--Stories--I land
my cargo at night at MONROVIA, and carry it through the
colony!--Some new views of commercial Morality! 356

CHAP. LVIII.--My compliments to British cruisers--The BONITO--I
offer an inspection of my barracoons, &c., to her officers--A
lieutenant and the surgeon are sent ashore--My reception of them,
and the review of my slaves, feeding, sleeping, &c.--Our night
frolic--Next morning--A surprise--The Bonito off, and her
officers ashore!--Almost a quarrel--How I pacified my guests over
a good breakfast--Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander 362

CHAP. LIX.--Ups and downs--I am captured in a Russian vessel,
and sent to Sierra Leone--It is resolved that I am to be despatched
to England--I determine to take French leave--Preparation
to celebrate a birthday--A feast--A martinet--CORPORAL
BLUNT--Pleasant effects of cider--A swim for life and liberty
at night--My concealment--I manage to equip myself, and depart
in a Portuguese vessel--I ship thirty-one slaves at Digby--A
narrow escape from a cruiser--My return to New Sestros--Report
of my death--How I restored confidence in my actual existence--Don
Pedro's notion of me--The gift of a donkey, and its disastrous
effect on the married ladies of New Sestros 369

CHAP. LX.--The confession of a dying sailor--SANCHEZ--The story
of the murder of Don Miguel, and destruction of his factory by
THOMPSON--A piratical revenge--An _auto-da-fe_ at sea 377

CHAP. LXI.--My establishment at Digby--The rival kinsmen,
and their quarrel--JEN-KEN, THE BUSHMAN--My arrival at
Digby, carousal--A night attack by the rival and his
allies--A rout--Horrid scenes of massacre, barbarity,
and cannibalism--My position and ransom