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trying to the men. My plan was to give them as 

 much coffee as they liked to drink, and they ap- 

 peared to be all in good health and spirits. Mr. 

 Hector, our purser, also, who had been taken ill 

 at Liberia, was now fast recovering. 



By the 26th we had completed our arrange- 

 ments for ascending the river, and had reduced 

 the draft of the Quorra to five feet three inches. 

 I was given to understand that King Boy in- 

 tended to accompany us to Eboe. 



At two in the afternoon we were under weigh, 

 and advanced up the river to King Boy's barra- 

 coon, or slave-hut, situated about nine miles dis- 

 tant from the bar. Here I was introduced to 

 King Forday and King Boy, both ill-looking 

 fellows, but uncommonly civil. The latter was 

 dressed in a Highland uniform, which had been 

 sent out to him by my father : it consisted of a 

 red coat, full-dress kilt, red stockings, and yellow 

 slippers ; the whole surmounted by a military 

 hat, with a feather in it about a yard long. But 

 he had a disagreeable, sulky cast of countenance ; 

 and with all his protestations of friendship, and 

 expressions of readiness to serve us in any way, 

 I was too much of a disciple of Lavater to trust 

 him. 



