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Mr. Lander always suspected the King of Id- 

 dah of having been the cause of Pascoe's death, 

 and the deaths of the seven Kroomen, who, it 

 appeared, had been too familiar with some of his 

 women. He had also been informed that it was 

 the intention of Attah, if he could get him into 

 his power, to make him subservient to his sera- 

 glio by numbering him amongst his eunuchs. I 

 was quite astonished at the open avowal of all 

 these atrocities ; but my surprise was somewhat 

 lessened by my previous knowledge of this man. 



Human life, in the estimation of Attah, is 

 valued as little as that of a fowl. I told him that 

 he acted very wrongly in attaching blame either 

 to Mr. Lander or Pascoe, as Mr. Lander had 

 been informed that he was a very cruel, capri- 

 cious, and tyrannical man, and daily cutting peo- 

 ple's heads off. Mr. Lander, I also told him, 

 had been apprised of his intentions, and that 

 both vessels were well armed, and prepared to 

 resent any injury the king might attempt to in- 

 flict. I reproached him with having sent some 

 of his war-canoes to Addacoodah to attack the 

 vessels. To this he replied, that what people had 

 said of him was untrue, and that he had never 

 sent his canoes to attack the ships. 



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