98 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
At 3, weighed with a fresh sea breeze, and at 6 anchored 
opposite the village of Lombee, where the Fuka or king’s 
merchant resides, who was to accompany me to the Chenoo, 
or king of Embomma. 
Simmons, a black man whom I had received at Deptford 
from Sir H. Popham’s flag-ship for a passage to his country, 
here first met with some of his family. His father and brother 
came on board the sloop. The transport of joy at the meet- 
ing was much more strongly expressed by the father than 
by the son, whose European ideas, though acquired in the 
school of slavery, did not seem to assimilate with those of 
Negro society, and he persisted in wearing his European 
jacket and trowsers ; he however went on shore with his 
friends, and throughout the night the town resounded with 
the sound of the drum and the songs of rejoicing. The 
story of this man, which I had before never thought of ene 
quiring into, and which was partly related by his father, 
adds one blot more to the character of European slave- 
traders. His father, who is called Mongova Seki, a prince of 
the blood, and counsellor to the king of Embomma, entrusted 
him, when eight or ten years old, to a Liverpool captain of 
the name of , to be educated (or according to 
his expression to learn to make book) in England ; but his 
conscientious guardian found it less troublesome to have 
