324 KING jacket's daughters. 



ing into the sea from their parent stream, the 



Niger. 



In the course of the morning, we saw, at a 

 short distance from us, two small canoes with 

 females paddling them. They came alongside, 

 and I found, on inquiry, that these damsels were 

 the daughters of King Jacket, of Brass. King 

 Boy poured out two glasses of rum for each, 

 which these princesses drank off without moving 

 a muscle of their black faces ! and with the same 

 ease that one of our dairymaids would have 

 drunk a basin of new milk. The youngest lady 

 appeared to be about thirteen, and the elder 

 fourteen years old, and both were fine, good- 

 looking girls. Their skins were of a lighter 

 colour than any I had seen ; but their sense of 

 modesty did not appear to be shocked in the least 

 by their naked condition, for they knelt down in 

 the bottom of their canoes without the least con- 

 cern at our presence, although after drinking the 

 rum they glanced very earnestly at us as if we 

 were somebody unexpected. 



At eleven o'clock, being near to Brass, pre- 

 parations were made to fire the two swivels 

 given by Mr. Lander, for the little Ju-ju, as 



