288 KING bell's town. 



got clear of the river, refused to give him up, 

 and carried him off. The vessel fortunately 

 was captured, and condemned at Sierra Leone. 

 Peter was put to school there, and afterwards 

 was taken by Colonel Nicolls as his servant — had 

 accompanied him by mere accident to Came- 

 roons, and was recognised by his mother, after 

 five years' absence. His friends during this time 

 had not been idle. The news of his being carried 

 off soon reached them ; they commenced a par- 

 tisan warfare, in which Peter's father and several 

 others had already lost their lives, and numbers 

 had been made slaves. 



Peter was offered by his master, the Colonel, 

 the option of returning to Fernando Po, or re- 

 maining with his mother ; and he wisely pre- 

 ferred the security of the English settlement. 



After leaving King Agua's town, we paid a 

 visit to King Bell's, which is not so neat or clean 

 as the other. It is situated on the same bank of 

 the river, about a mile distant. 



Another royal personage resides about three 

 miles up the river, but we did not pay him a 

 visit. 



The two chiefs accompanied us on board to 

 witness a race between a canoe paddled by 



