CONGO EXPEDITION. 
envoys led to 'a somewhat unceremonious mode 
of treating them ; so that the Great Mafook him- 
self, arriving in person, was viewed as an impos- 
tor, and so little courtesy observed towards him, 
that he left the vessel precipitately. His quality, 
however, being immediately pointed out by one 
of the natives, extraordinary efforts were made to 
efface this bad reception. Four swivel guns were 
fired in his honour ; but a much better effect was 
produced by allowing brandy without limit to 
himself and twenty attendants. It was some 
days, however, before they arrived at Lombee, 
the port of Embomma. Their first landing was 
marked by an interesting event. A young na- 
tive of Congo, called Simmons, who had been in 
slavery at St Christopher, attended the expedi- 
tion, and officiated in the humble office of cook's 
mate. At Lombee his friends immediately re- 
cognized him, and Captain Tuckey learned his 
story, with which he was before unacquainted. 
The father was a prince of the blood, and had 
intrusted his son to a Liverpool captain, for the 
purpose of receiving an European education. 
This was placing the lamb under the care of the 
wolf j that personage accordingly judged it most 
profitable to employ the young prince in cultivating 
sugar at St Kitts. The rapture with which the 
father now received his long-lost child, and the 
eagerness with which he hugged him in his arms. 
