n Prince Lawrence,
and if your captain and surgeon are not with me at the chieftain's house
in half an hour after I land, I will put an officer and men on board your
ship, and if everything I have heard against his conduct is not cleared up
to my satisfaction, I will carry her to Jamaica."

The river at this beautiful place, for the country appeared green and
fresh and ornamented with a profusion of lofty palm and cocoanut trees,
was much wider than at its mouth. On landing, a number of the natives had
assembled on the shore to view us as sea-monsters or curiosities, as they
had never seen two men-of-war's boats at their settlement before. The
prince's son, who was among them, came up to me. He was dressed in a white
linen jacket and trousers, with a white English hat. He spoke tolerable
English. He requested me to go to his father's house, which was a long,
low, whitewashed building, with a four-pounder sticking out of a kind of
window at one end of it, and before it was a mud battery of four more
four-pounders in bad repair. On being introduced to him I found he also
spoke English. He asked me the occasion of my visit. I acquainted him,
when he, without ceremony, summoned one of the cabaceers, or principal
men, and desired him to find the captain of the slave-ship and bring him
with him. "I dine at three o'clock," said he; "I hope you will favour me
with your company." I accepted the invitation. This prince's appearance
was like that of an European, his features were regular and pleasing. He
informed me his father was an Arabian chief, but that he was born on the
spot where he now resided, and that he had married one of the native
king's daughters. He had two sons; the eldest was with him, and the other
in England for his education. "I am very partial to the English," added
he, "and should like to go to England, but that is impossible." Our
conversation was interrupted by the entrance of the native magistrate with
the master of the slave-ship, a sharp-looking, rather slight man. He
pulled off his hat. "I understand, sir, that you wish to speak with me."
"I most assuredly do," answered I. "Have you brought the ship's papers and
the surgeon with you?" "I have the first about me," saying this he took
them from his coat-pocket and gave them to me. "As for the surgeon," said
he, "he has behaved infamously and ungratefully. I paid his lodgings at
Bristol, and if he had not come with me he must have starved or have been
put i