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and practical traveller, even had I not known him 

 to be the most indomitable explorer of modern 

 days, and an author whose writings', unbiassed by 

 prejudice, are stamped with truth. I amused 

 myself for several hours by looking over his 

 library, which consisted of several hundred of 

 the best works of the day in all tongues — for 

 the Hadji is a polyglot — and I often found myself 

 roaring at the quaint notes and criticisms in the 

 margin, in " the Prophet's " peculiar fist, which 

 much resembles the trail a spider would leave on 

 paper after he had crawled through a pool of 

 ink. 



Here I met with Mr. Robert Bruce Walker, the 

 agent of Messrs. Hatton and Cookson, of Liver- 

 pool, at the Gaboon, who very kindly offered 

 Mr. Win wood Reade and myself a passage to that 

 place, in his barque, the ** Minerva," which was to 

 sail in a few days. 



I called on a celebrated character, ex-Govevnor 

 Lynslager, better known all over the coast as " Daddy 

 Jim," one of the most liberal and biggest-hearted 

 men I ever came across, who for many years was 



