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KING BELL. 
to say that he was coming on hoard the ‘ Wilberforce,’ 
and immediately after, this petty chief,— great trader 
and greater rogue, — bounded into Captain Allen’s cabin 
calling out loudly for brandy. He was speedily 
ordered out to wait till he was sent for, which had 
manifestly a good elfect. It was a lesson which he 
had never before received, and which produced an 
equally disgusting amount of fawning humility. 
‘Soudan’ only arrived in the afternoon, having been 
detained by the defective working of the engine. One 
of her officers, Mr. Anderson, second master, was in a 
very debilitated state ; the consequence of a violent 
secondary attack of remittent fever, which had nearly 
carried him off, resisting almost every means used, 
and only yielding to large quantities of quinine, in six 
and eight-grain doses. That vessel was therefore 
ordered to repair to the bay of Amboises. 
We landed in the afternoon to return King Bell’s 
visit, and found him in front of his house, seated in a 
large arm-chair, with no other dress than an ample 
cotton cloth folded round the loins, and an English 
black beaver hat on. He was surrounded by a num- 
ber of his people, who had devoted this cooler portion 
of the day to recreation. The principal performers 
were the Egbo men, who, with painted faces, were 
enacting a rude sort of dance ; sometimes pirouetting 
in a manner which caused the loose grass kilt to fly 
out in their gyrations, something like the dress of our 
ballet-dancers. The “free Ebos or Egbos” are a 
