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Beamish on board the senior officer's ship, and had to 

 stand no little amount of chaff about my queer taste 

 in visiting the West Coast of Africa for pleasure. 

 Tt was hinted that " such a yarn might do for the 

 marines, but sailors could not swallow it," and 

 I believe one very yellow and wizened-up spe- 

 cimen of humanity — an old Coast bird — half- 

 believed that I was come out to establish a 

 wholesale trade in black ivory. 



The scenery of Prince's Island is magnificent 

 in the extrem.e, as it consists of high mountains, 

 bluff scarped rocks, many hundred feet in height, 

 bold pinnacles, and densely wooded hills. The 

 whole island is evidently of volcanic origin, and 

 a mountain, apparently nearly 4000 feet in height, 

 was pointed out to me, on the summit of which 

 there is said to be a large lake, that most likely 

 is the crater of an extinct volcano. The tropical 

 vegetation is very luxuriant, and coffee and sugar 

 cane would grow all over the island, of which 

 only a small portion appears to be cultivated. 



We visited the slave barracoon and house, 

 formerly belonging to Madame Farrara, whose 



