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people, to convince me of their discountenance of the outrage. I 
divided the people into watches for the night. 
By day light the next morning all our luggage was returned, I 
refused to receive it. Yokokroko and Adoo Quamina then sent to 
say they waited below until we had done breakfast; a long palaver 
succeeded, of the same tenour as that of the preceding night. 
About 11 o'clock, the linguists, Adoocee, OfceCy and Quancum; 
Yokokroko, and a crowd of captains came from the King with a 
present of ^0 ackies, two flasks of liquor, and a large hog. I asked 
them if they came to put more shame on my face, by bribing me 
to settle the great palaver they had made the night before with the 
King of England. They flattered and menaced by turns to make 
me take it, and urged, that to refuse the King's present was to 
declare war. I persisted in refusing every thing short of an inter- 
view with the King. The Cape Coast messengers, impelled by 
their apprehensions and their avarice, had the temerity to declare 
at this moment, that you had sent them as a check upon me, and 
that they knew I was not doing as you wished in talking so to the 
King, and that you would make a palaver with me for not waiting 
the King's pleasure. It was necessary to annihilate the impression 
of such language immediately. I deprived them of their canes, 
and threatened to put them in irons. The King not long after sent 
his eunuch and followers to conduct us to the palace, where he 
had assembled the superior captains. We went in plain clothes, 
alleging that we dared not wear our uniforms as prisoners. The 
King said, I must not say that ; he was my good friend, and would 
do me right; he did not think 1 would have tried to go without 
his leave, and never meant his people to fight with us, he would 
give me the heads of all those who, led them on, and beg me him- 
self for the rest, as I begged him for Quamina Bootaqua ; he never 
begged any body before ; he did not send the gold, as I thought, 
