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permission to go and make custom for some relatives whom he 
had lost in the last Fan tee war, as he feared their spirits were 
beginning to trouble him. The King subscribed four ounces of 
gold, two ankers of rum^ one barrel of powder, and four human 
victims for sacrifice, towards this custom. We received a present 
of 11 ackies of gold from Quatchie Quofies household. 
:^6th. We received a present from a captain called Goossa 
Cludjo, of 10 ackies of gold, and another from Jessinting, of the 
same quantitj, a sheep and some plantains. 
28th. The King sent us a large quantity of plantains and 
oranges. Apbkoo, one of the four greatest men in the kingdom, 
hearing his mothers sister was dead, killed a slave before his 
bouse, and proceeded to her croom to sacrifice many more, and 
celebrate . her funeral custom ; but, when he found, on opening 
her boxes, that the old woman from her dislike of him, had thrown 
almost all her rock gold into the river, and that he should only 
inherit a number of hungry slaves, he sacrificed but one more 
victim, and made but a very mean custom i 
29th. Attended the King's levee, and were presented with a 
flask of rum, and a fat sheep. The King sent us word that he 
would be glad to let us walk out, but there v^ere many bad people 
who would kill us if they could. We were gratified by an invi- 
tation to visit Odumata, one of the four aristocrats ; he begged us 
to drink palm wine with him, and ordered a large jar of it to be 
sent to our servants. He told us he was the first captain who 
fought with , the EngHsh at Annamaboe ; and that if the books 
were not sent, he would be the first to So so again; he asked us if 
we would take him to England to see our King, and engage to 
bring him back again; for, having sold an immense number of 
captives as slaves, he expected some of them might recognise him, 
and call out to the King of England to stop him, because he had 
sent them out of their own country. 
