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much of by the king, that they both became per- 

 fectly independent of me ; and knowing my in- 

 ability to move, and keeping carefully out of my 

 reach, would rob me of cowries before my face, 

 to supply their extravagance. Friday, who was 

 a good-looking lad, was quite a lady-killer, and 

 would take himself off every morning to the bar- 

 ber's shop, to get his black woolly head dressed 

 in the most recent fashion (an exquisite of Fun- 

 dah must have his hair dressed every day). Mr. 

 Friday's next occupation was smoking his pipe 

 and relating stories, wonderful no doubt, about 

 Sierra Leone and the Havannah, to the admiring 

 crowd of natives, who would collect about him. 

 His amourettes repeatedly got him into scrapes ; 

 but " the more danger the more glory," seemed 

 to be his motto, and he was altogether incorri- 

 gible, although heavy damages were frequently 

 levied on his shoulders, which in England would 

 have fallen on his purse. 



