CHAPTER VI. 
Consultation of tlie Commissioners respecting future operations — 
Decide on returning to the coast — Dispatches sent to Government 
by Lieut. Toby — The Rev. Theodore Muller returns to England- 
Further remarks on Ascension — The Blowhole, or Grampus 
Cavern — Natural volcanic arch — Turtle — The ‘^Wide-awake” and 
“ Gannet Fairs” — Magnetic term-days — The ‘ Wilberfoi'ce’ leaves 
Ascension for the Bight of Biafra — Discoloration of the sea by con- 
fervse — Luminosity of sea; how connected with this appearance — 
Phosphorescent polypi— Revisit Cape Coast— Change in the plumage 
of some of the birds — Accra — Mr, Bannerman’s hospitality — Com- 
parison between Fantis and Ashantis — A runaway Bornu slave — 
Swajnped in the suif— Fernando Po — Its appearance — Clarence 
Cove — Edeeyahs, or natives — Their physical characters — No tra- 
ditionary Evidence of their origin — ^Native towns and villages — 
Moral and social condition of the inhabitants— Manners and customs 
— Government— Religious superstitions— Festival at the planting of 
the yam— Observances on decease of any of the tribe — System of 
betrothal— Severe punishment for adultery— Mode of fishing— 
Land crabs — Native method of chanting — Palm-nut gatherers 
Description of a hunt with the Edeeyahs — Bota-kimmo, or chanting 
priest. 
The information brought by the ‘Albert’ now 
demanded the gravest consideration, whether the sug- 
gestions of Captain Trotter should be acted up to, or 
whether the more recent reports of the attack on the 
