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worst vices of tlie natives They were lazy 
and indolent, not one of them willing or dis- 
posed to manual labour, yet ready enough to exer- 
cise authority over the negroes they had hired, and 
whom they employed on the most trifling occasions, 
rather than exert themselves. As a proof of their love 
* This is fully corroborated by the journal of Thomas King, which, 
though minute and diffuse, contains some interesting particulars. As 
they tend to throw light on the manners of the natives of the inte- 
rior, and especially on the disorganized state of society produced by 
the foreign slave-trade, to which it is a chief means of furnishing the 
victims, we give some brief abstracts from it : — 
"The ‘Albert’ was hardly out of sight, when Thomas King began 
to feel the difficulties of command ; his crew commenced a system of 
mutinous conduct, which continued throughout the whole period of 
their stay at the Confluence, and was marked by every crime, short 
of murder, which was several times with difficulty prevented. On 
one occasion they nearly provoked an attack on the settlement, by 
their atrocious conduct at the village of Panda'iki. Moore and King 
went through the form of tiying them by jury, which was curiously 
composed of magistrates, witnesses, and advocates. The criminals 
were sentenced to pay a fine of 10,000 cowries, 10,000 to the injured 
chief and his people, the remainder as a court-fee. Her Majesty’s 
stores furnishing the wJierevntJial, 
"The natives on all occasions were well disposed towards the settlers. 
The Attah in particular, proved he was sincere in his professions of 
friendship and protection. Shortly after the departure of the ‘ Albert,’ 
he sent a present of a bullock, and his agents finding that some per- 
sons had committed theft, caused them to he seized and sent to the 
Attah, who punished them, by selling them, — for his own profit we 
presume. 
“ Ihey expressed some dissatisfaction at seeing the inhabitants of the 
mountain, — Kakanda people — move about unmolested, saying, that 
if it were not for the settlers at the model farm, they would all be 
made slaves if they ventured down to the hank of the river. 
