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allowed to be looked at, and to walk about with unveiled 
faces. The principal attendants about the Att^h’s resh 
dence are eunuchs : they are numerous, and are much 
confided in by their despotic master. 
This afternoon, a beautiful specimen of antelope 
passed the vessel, swimming down the stream : it had 
probably been on some overflowed bank, and carried otf 
by the late freshes. Some of the 'Albert’s’ boats 
pushed off soon after, in apparent haste, and it was sup- 
posed in the other vessels that they had gone to pick it 
up ; but we found, on returning from an unavailing 
search, that Johnson, one of the ' Albert’s’ crew, a 
native of Iddah, who was so useful as an interpreter in 
the late negociations, had fallen over-board. He was 
said to have been slightly intoxicated ; and, to render 
the matter more painful, there were several canoes along- 
side the ship when the accident occurred, and they could 
with ease have saved him ; but not one of his hard- 
hearted countrymen put forth a helping hand, or offered 
the least assistance. 
The unfortunate man had been taken away as a slave 
many years previously, and having been recaptured, and 
brought to Sierra Leone, he was educated, and had even 
been advanced to the situation of catechist. After a very 
long absence from his native place, he returned to find a 
relative on the throne of Iddah, and all seemed to 
promise well for future residence among his countrymen, 
when he was thus suddenly cut off. 
In the meantime, the ' Wilberforce,’ in coming over 
