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We had also quite an outfit of things with us. The 
cooking utensils were numerous: we had three brass 
kettles, three iron pots, one frying-pan, and three water- 
jars. We had also three axes, half a dozen machetes, and 
several fishing-nets, and I had three of my guns, fifty 
pounds of shot, a couple of hundred bullets, and there 
were flint-lock guns for the men. We did not care to 
be armed; we were in our own country—in the Commi 
Country, where my settlement of Washington is situated. 
I had three chests, one containing my clothes and one 
filled with splendid heads of Kentucky tobacco for my 
men, for they were all inveterate smokers, myself being 
the only one that did not smoke. I had also several 
dozens of pipes. 
All rejoiced at the unbounded supply of tobacco and 
pipes: they were to have such a glorious time; they 
were to take such great care of their friend Chaillee, their 
king; there was no other Ntangani (white man) like 
him; he was their good Mbuiti (spirit) ; all this talk was 
to soften my heart about the tobacco. 
At last the camp was done, and we were not sorry, 
for we had worked hard the wholeday. We hada huge 
pile of plantains with us, which the wives and slaves of 
King Olenga Yombi had brought to us; we had a large 
quantity of sugar-cane and some baskets of ground-nuts ; 
the river and the sea were not far off, and having our 
nets with us there was a prospect of getting plenty of 
fish. 
In the evening, when my men were smoking their 
pipes, we quietly talked about our hunting and fishing 
prospects. 
I had discovered that this Cape St. Catherine was a 
