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him taught to make sugar at St. Kitts, where he accordingly 
sold him; and from whence he contrived to make his escape 
and get on board an English ship of war, from which he 
was paid off on the reduction of the fleet. During our 
passage he performed, without any signs of impatience or 
disgust, the menial office of cook’s-mate. 
July 26th. Lombee is a village of about a hundred huts, 
and here is held the market of the banza or King’s town, no 
trading operation whatever being carried on at the latter; all 
trading vessels also anchor opposite Lombee. The reason 
assigned for the market being held here is, that as a great con- 
course of country people frequent the market, if any dispute 
were lo arise between them and the banza people, the banza 
would run great risk of being burned, and the person of 
the Chenoo himself would not be safe. Mr. Simmons this 
forenoon paid us a visit, in so complete a metamorphosis 
that we could with difficulty recognize our late cook’s mate ; 
his father having dressed him out in a sillkk coat embroidered 
with silver, which seemed by its cut to have adorned the 
person of a stage fop in the days of Sir Roger de Coverley ; 
this piece of finery worn over his own dirty banyan and 
trowsers ; on his head a black glazed hat with an enormous 
grenadier feather, and a silk sash, which I had given him, 
suspending a ship’s cutlass, finished his costume. He was 
brought to the boat by two slaves in a hammock, an umbrella 
