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all our views, and promised every assistance in his power 
in furtherance of them. 
Captain Tucker, also, the senior officer on the coast, 
whom wc fortunately fell in with, gave the most cordial 
offers of co-operation. An order from the Admiralty 
directed that a vessel of his squadron should be anchored 
off the mouth of the Rio Nun, and remain there while 
the Expedition should be up the river, in order to be 
able to render assistance in case of emergency. 
The strict system of blockade which this lamented 
officer had already established, enabled him easily to 
comply with this, and he gave genei’al instructions to 
the officers in his squadron to aid us on aU occasions. 
We were fully occupied during our stay at Cape Coast 
Castle in trans-shipping from the transport our stores and 
provisions, and the goods for the Model Farm ; profiting 
by the fineness of the weather here — though there was 
much inconvenience from the heavy swell — in order that 
we might be detained a shorter time off the entrance to 
the Niger, where it might not be so favourable, and cer- 
tainly would be less healthy. 
In the meantime, Governor M'Lean’s hospitable invi- 
tations induced aU the officers who could be spared to visit 
the Castle, where he left nothing undone which could add 
to their comfort or amusement. This edifice is large, 
strongly built and commodious ; furnished in a manner 
that would appear scanty to persons whose ideas of 
comfort require a well carpetted room, &c. But it was 
very suitable to a climate, where it is desirable above all 
