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CHAPTER XII. 



Proceed to Calebar. — The French Captain. — Barbarous 

 Practices on the Death of a Chief. — Native Wrestlers. — 

 Return to Fernando Po. — A Slaver captured. — Fer- 

 nando Po. — Its advantageous Situation and Climate con- 

 sidered. — Natives and their Habits. — Voyage to Liver- 

 pool. — A rrival. 



As I had discovered that some of the copper 

 sheathing had been rubbed off the Quorra's 

 bottom, I was obliged to pay another visit to 

 Calebar, there not being rise and fall of tide suf- 

 ficient at Clarence Cove to lay her aground. 



On my arrival there, I found a brig under 

 Brazilian colours, commanded by M. Gaspar, a 

 French gentleman, who had settled at Bahia, and 

 had come out in his vessel to lay in a cargo of 

 dyewood. As taking dyewood to the Brazils ap- 

 peared to me very like taking " coals to New- 

 castle," I took it for granted that he had a very 

 different object in view, and, instead of dyewood. 



