e was not by any means the principal
person in it. The owner, during the evening, informed me that he was a
first-rate officer, of great personal courage, and that he had made a
great deal of money, which he had squandered away almost as fast as he
received it.

With this person, whose name was Captain Levee (an alteration, I
suspect, from Levi), I was much pleased; and as I found that he did
not appear to despise my acquaintance, I took much pains to please
him, and we were becoming very intimate, when my ship was ready to
sail. I now found that I was promoted to the office of first mate,
which gave me great satisfaction.

We sailed with an assorted cargo, but very light, and nothing of
consequence occurred during our passage out. We made good traffic on
the coast as we ran down it, receiving ivory, gold-dust, and wax, in
exchange for our printed cottons and hardware. After being six weeks
on the coast, we put into Senegal to dispose of the remainder of our
cargo; which we soon did to the governor, who gave us a fair exchange,
although by no means so profitable a barter as what we had made on the
coast; but that we did not expect for what might be called the refuse
of our cargo. The captain was much pleased, as he knew the owner would
be satisfied with him, and, moreover, he had himself a venture in the
cargo; and we had just received the remainder of the ivory from the
governor's stores, and had only to get on board a sufficiency of
provisions and water for our homeward voyage, when a circumstance took
place which I must now relate.

Our crew consisted of the captain, and myself, as first mate, the
second mate, and twelve seamen, four of which were those who had been
taken prisoners with me, and had been released, as I have related, in
our previous voyage. These four men were very much attached to me, I
believe chiefly from my kindness to them when I was a slave to the
queen Whyna, as I always procured for them every thing which I could,
and, through the exertions of my mistress, had them plentifully
supplied with provisions from the king's table. The second mate and
other eight men we had shipped at Liverpool. They were fine, stout
fellows, but appeared to be loose characters, but that we did not
discover till after we had sailed. There was anchored with us at
Senegal a low black brig, employed in the slave-trade, which had made
the bay at the same time that we did; and to their great surprise--for
she was consid