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LEAVE THE NIGER. 
a schooner in one of the creeks which was supposed 
to he a slaver. 
9 A.M. Th. 79" wet bulb, Mason’s Hygr. 76" 
3 P.M. „ 80” „ „ „ 75” 
9 p.m. „ 77“ „ „ „ 75” 
28th . — 9 A.M. Th. 81” wet bulb, Mason’s Hjgr. 76“ 
3 P.M. „ 77“ „ „ „ 76” 
9 P.M. „ 79” „ „ „ 76” 
Wednesday, 2Qth Sept . — This was the fourth day 
we had been detained by the necessity for cutting 
a sufficient supply of fuel to take us on our little sea- 
voyage to Fernando Po, which appeared to go on but 
slowly, as there was no officer to look after the 
Krumen. The impatience to get away, perhaps, pre- 
vented our making allowance for the great difficulty 
under which they had to labour, cutting down trees 
in a swamp in some places up to their knees in 
water, and even to their middle, and with torrents of 
rain pouring on them the whole day, yet these poor 
fellows laboured cheerfully ; in order to redeem their 
character, after having been taxed vdth idleness, 
they worked much beyond the time fixed for our 
departure: this added to the delay in sending the 
medical man for a last visit to the sick in the schooner, 
of the supercargo. An inquiry was made into the circumstances, but 
nothing was elicited to authorize Captain Trotter to interfere. All 
the white crew refused to serve any longer, and she took her depar- 
ture, trusting to the Krumen ; hut we afterwards heard she had been 
picked up at sea abandoned, under what circumstances we know not. 
