PUNISHMENT UE THE NATIVES. 
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urging those under them to greater exertion. These 
instruments were immediately laid aside by Lieutenant 
Webb’s injunction, and although he had not seen them 
actually applied in punishing the natives, yet he had 
every reason to believe that they were in the habit of 
but without effect. He was much shocked at the immoral conduct 
of the settlers and natives, and had the schooner removed from abreast 
of tlie landing-place, where the women used to come of a morning to 
bathe indiscriminately with the men. He visited the different villages 
and wished to make an opening for the introduction of Christianity, 
by pointing out the folly of their fetiche worship, which in some 
cases the natives acknowledged. He was particularly annoyed at a 
mistaken attempt to do honour to our festival of Christmas by the 
natives of the surrounding villages ; who at the invitation of Moore 
had come to the settlement with drums and shouting, &c., and 
fetiche men wliom he called Mevils.’ He explained the meaning 
of the holiday, and how it ought to he kept. 
“ July King paid a visit to the mountain Patteh. He found 
it ^ as level as the deck of a ship,’ with a great deal of cultivation. 
Many villages, but witli one exception, Ajjidido, they were filthily 
dirty. Aggajeh was inhabited by fugitives from Bassah ; having no 
land of their own, the chief sent his people to work for the settlers 
at the model farm, hut he complained that one by one they were 
sold into slavery by the Pandaiki people, and even by their employers 
as he had been informed. But this we hope was untrue. King 
retorted the charge by saying ^ Yea, and even they themselves sold 
one another sometimes.’ 
During his absence, the houses of the model farm with the 
exception of the store and two others, were destroyed by fire; wliich 
gave occasion for him to lament ‘ the rude manner that we who 
came from a civilized country and are well acquainted with the 
damage the destructive element often causes, should build houses in 
worse condition than the natives,” 
King’s journal terminates here. 
Lieutenant Webb arrived eleven days subsequently, 18th July, 
