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sixty-five men, and Colonel Nicolls's Deal galley 

 paddled by twenty-two Kroomen. The canoe 

 was much larger than any I had seen amongst 

 the Eboes, and measured above sixty-five feet in 

 length ; — an immense length for the single tree 

 of which she was composed, and that tree hard 

 wood. Notwithstanding the exertions of her 

 crew, she was easily beaten by the galley, to the 

 great astonishment of the natives, and triumph 

 of our Kroomen. 



We departed on the succeeding morning, sa- 

 luting the towns, and, calling for letters on board 

 the Doddingstons, went by the outside passage 

 to Bimbia, where we arrived in the afternoon. 

 In coming out of Cameroons I saw the remains 

 of the Susan. This vessel was in the Nun when 

 I entered the river: she had been abandoned by 

 the crew off Prince's, and the current had car- 

 ried her into Cameroons river, — a convincing 

 proof that there existed no real necessity for her 

 being abandoned. On the main land of Came- 

 roons were the remains of another English vessel, 

 which it must have required no common in- 

 genuity to lose in such a place. 



On our arrival at Bimbia, we gave judgment 

 in an appeal-case relative to the death of a slave 



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