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 kins; of Embomraa. 



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 b3i 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 en- 

 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 



