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FROM ZEGZEG TO BADAGRY. 
not, it cannot hurt you.” There being no resource, I immediately, 
and without hesitation, swallowed the contents of the bowl, and 
walked hastily out of the hut, through the armed men, to my own 
lodgings, took powerful medicine and plenty of warm water, which 
instantly ejected the whole from my stomach, and I felt no ill 
effects from the fetish. It had a bitter and disagreeable taste, and 
I was told almost always proved fatal. 
When the king and chief men found, after five days, that the 
fetish had not hurt me, they became extremely kind, and sent me 
presents of provisions, &c. daily, and frequently said I was protected 
by God, and that it was out of the power of man to do me an 
injury. 
I remained at Badagry two months, but was advised by the 
king never to go out unarmed, as the Portuguese took no pains to 
conceal their inveterate dislike to me ; and would no doubt assas- 
sinate me the first opportunity that might present itself. Several 
persons in canoes passed repeatedly from Badagry to Cape Coast, 
but although I offered to reward them, I could never get them to 
take a note for me to the latter place, so active had been the exer- 
tions of the Portuguese to debar me from every means of commu- 
nicating with my countrymen. 
There were five factories at Badagry, in which were upwards 
of one thousand slaves of both sexes, chained by the neck to each 
other, waiting for vessels to take them away. 
Captain Morris, of the brig Maria, of London, hearing of my 
being at Badagry, kindly came from Whydah to fetch me, and on 
the 20th of January I went on board, and arrived at Cape Coast on 
the 31st of the same month. Here I gave my faithful slaves, 
Aboudah, Jowdie, and Pascoe's wife their freedom, who testified 
their sorrow on my departure by heaping sand on their heads, and 
other marks of grief peculiar to the African race. Colonel Lumley 
