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BOYS BBHAVIOUR. 
having heard that Mr. Carr, or any white person, was 
with him, or knowing the reasons which had led 
Brown to visit the Brass river. He suggested, how- 
ever, that if Mr. Carr had landed, or passed his, King 
Boy's water, the son of the late King Jacket, now a 
co-chief in the same river, might have been aware of 
the circumstance. This allusion, considering the near 
neighbourhood of these chiefs, was sufficient to con- 
vince Lieutenant Webb, that King Boy knew more 
than he chose to tell ; and while it confirmed his fears 
as to Mr. Carr's fate, he was fully determined, that if 
spared, he would, on his return, make Boy account 
for Mr. Carr, or otherwise carry him a prisoner to 
Fernando Po. 
Nothing could have been more disgusting tlian the 
fawning abject behaviour of that chief ; his very look 
betrayed the consciousness of detected guilt. In the 
afternoon the ‘ Wiberforce' proceeded slowly up the 
river, and soon reached the village on the opposite 
bank, (marked the “hostile town” on Captain W. 
Allen's chart). Here the natives were assembled in 
immense numbers, and evinced the same degree of 
curiosity, that had been so remarked in every part of 
the river on the previous melancholy visit. At 3 
P.M., a heavy squall was experienced from the south- 
west, accompanied with lightning, thunder, and rain ; 
the direction of the wind — south-west, — was a very 
unusual one. Ali Herr the pilot, was soon found to 
be utterly incompetent for his task, being ignorant of 
