346 FATE OF AN AMERICAN SUPERCARGO. 



on credit. Jacket separated from him to return. 

 It was intended that the small schooner should 

 trade in the Eboe country, and she had gone up 

 to Brass to proceed from thence by the creeks. 

 The supercargo left the Nun in a canoe, with 

 some of King Jacket's and King Boy's pullaboys, 

 in order to join the schooner at Brass ; but when 

 he was near Fish Town, an accident happened 

 which not only terminated fatally, but completely 

 put a stop to the proceedings of the expedition. 

 The account given of this man's actions by the na- 

 tives is as follows : — The supercargo, who had a 

 trade-gun with him, landed to shoot a small bird ; 

 when being disappointed at getting near it, he 

 returned to the canoe and laid himself down. 

 The gun unfortunately had been so placed, that 

 one of the pullaboys accidentally treading on the 

 lock, caused it to go off, when it burst and killed 

 the supercargo and two negroes. The subse- 

 quent conduct of the natives in the canoe ren- 

 ders their account worthy of little credit ; for they 

 plundered the mutilated corpse of the watch and 

 other things, and conveyed the former to an 

 officer then on board the schooner at Brass 

 Town, who was waiting the arrival of the super- 

 cargo. In addition to this calamity, King Jacket 



