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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 to 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 silk 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, aa umbrella 



