d caused her to ride very uneasily by her anchor.
They had been obliged to anchor immediately abreast of the Pilot's
town, and expected every moment that they should be fired at from the
battery. Time was of the greatest importance to them; they had made
Boy their enemy, and expected before they could get out of the river,
he would summon his people and make an attack upon them, whilst their
whole party amounted only to twenty men, two thirds of whom were
Africans. The pilot also, whom Lake had offended so much, was known
to be a bold and treacherous ruffian. He was the same person, who
steered the brig Susan among the breakers, by which that vessel
narrowly escaped destruction, with the loss of her windlass, and an
anchor and cable. The fellow had done this, merely with the hope of
obtaining a part of the wreck, as it drifted on shore. Another
vessel, a Liverpool oil trader, was actually lost on the bar, by the
treachery of the same individual, who having effected his purpose, by
placing her in a situation, from which she could not escape, jumped
overboard and swam to the canoe, which was at a short distance. The
treatment of the survivors of this wreck is shocking to relate; they
were actually stripped of their clothes, and allowed to die of
hunger. It would be an endless task to enumerate all the misdeeds,
that are laid to this fellow's charge, which have no doubt lost
nothing by report, but after making all reasonable allowances for
exaggeration, his character appears in a most revolting light, and
the fact of his running these vessels on the bar, proves him to be a
desperate and consummate villain. This same fellow is infinitely more
artful and intelligent than any of his countrymen, and is one of the
handsomest black men that the Landers had seen.

Not long after they had dropped the anchor, they observed the pilot,
with the help of the glass, walking on the beach, and watching them
occasionally. A multitude of half-naked, suspicious-looking fellows,
were likewise straggling along the shore, while others were seen
emerging from a grove of cocoa trees, and the thick bushes near it.
These men were all armed, chiefly with muskets, and they subsequently
assembled in detached groups to the number of several hundreds, and
appeared to be consulting about attacking the vessel. Nothing less
than this, and to be fired at from the battery, was now expected by
them, and there was no doubt that the strength and loftiness of th