barracoons destroyed--Adieus to New Sestros--I
sail with Seagram, in the Termagant, for Cape Mount--A slaver
in sight--All the nautical men depart to attack her in boats
during a calm--I am left in charge of Her Britannic Majesty's
cruiser--The fruitless issue--Escape of the Serea 411

CHAP. LXVIII.--We land at Cape Mount, and obtain a cession of
territory, by deed, from KING FANA-TORO and PRINCE GRAY--I
explore the region--Site of old English slave factory--Difficulty
of making the negroes comprehend my improvements at New
Florence--Negro speculations and philosophy in regard to labor. 414

CHAP. LXIX.--Visit to Monrovia--Description of the colony and
its products--Speculations on the future of the republic, and
the character of colored colonization 419

CHAP. LXX.--I remove, and settle permanently at New Florence--I
open communications with cruisers to supply them with provisions,
&c.--Anecdote of SOMA, the gambler--His sale and danger in the
hands of a Bushman--Mode of gambling one's self away in Africa--A
letter from Governor Macdonald destroys my prospect of British
protection--I haul down the British flag--I determine to devote
myself to husbandry--Bad prospect 424

CHAP. LXXI.--Account of the character of the VEY negroes--The
GREE-GREE bush--Description of this institution, its rites,
services, and uses--Marriage and midwifery--A scene with
Fana-Toro, at Toso--Human sacrifice of his enemy; frying a
heart; indignity committed on the body--Anecdote of the king's
endurance; burns his finger as a test, and rallies his men--Death
of Prince Gray--Funeral rites among the Vey people--_Smoking the
corpse_--I am offered the choice of his widows 429

CHAP. LXXII.--My workshops, gardens, and plantations at the Cape
Mount settlement--I do not prosper as a farmer or trader with
_the interior_--I decide to send a _coaster_ to aid in the
transfer of the Yankee clipper A---- to a slaver--I part on bad
terms with the British--Game at Cape Mount--Adventure of a boy
and an _Ourang-outang_--How we killed leopards, and saved our
castle--Mode of hunting elephants--Elephant law 437

CHAP. LXXIII.--Fana-Toro's war, and its effect on my
establishment--I decline joining actively in the conflict--I
allow captives to be shipped by a Gallinas factor--Two years
of blockade by the Briti