from his temptations, and contrive to get my cargo
in two months 260

CHAP. XL.--All Africans believe in divinities or powers of
various degree, except the Bagers--Iguanas worshipped in
Ayudah--Invitation to witness the HUMAN SACRIFICES at the court
of DAHOMEY--How they travel to ABOMEY--The King, his court,
amazons, style of life, and brutal festivities--Superstitious
rights at LAGOS--The JUJU hunts by night for the virgin to be
sacrificed--Gree-gree bush--The sacrifice--African priest and
kingcraft 265

CHAP. XLI.--My voyage home in the ESTRELLA--A REVOLT OF THE
SLAVES during a squall, and how we were obliged to suppress
it--Use of pistols and hot water 272

CHAP. XLII.--Smallpox and a _necessary murder_--Bad luck every
where--A chase and a narrow escape 276

CHAP. XLIII.--The AGUILA DE ORO, a Chesapeake clipper--my race
with the Montesquieu--I enter the river Salum to trade for
slaves--I am threatened, then arrested, and my clipper seized by
French man-of-war's men--Inexplicable mystery--We are imprisoned
at GOREE--Transferred to San Louis on the Senegal--The Frenchmen
appropriate my schooner without condemnation--How they used her
The sisters of charity in our prison--The trial scene in court,
and our sentence--Friends attempt to facilitate my escape, but
our plans detected--I am transferred to a guard-ship in the
stream--New projects for my escape--A jolly party and the nick
of time, but the captain spoils the sport 280

CHAP. XLIV.--I am sent to France in the frigate FLORA--Sisters
of charity--The prison of Brest--My prison companions--Prison
mysteries--CORPORAL BLON--I apply to the Spanish
minister--Transfer to the civil prison 286

CHAP. XLV.--MADAME SORRET and my new quarters--Mode of life--A
lot of Catalan girls--Prison boarding and lodging--Misery of
the convicts in the coast prisons--Improvement of the central
prisons 292

CHAP. XLVI.--New lodgers in our quarters--How we pass our
time in pleasant diversions by aid of the Catalan girls and
my cash--Soirees--My funds give out--Madame Sorret makes a
suggestion--I turn schoolmaster, get pupils, teach English
and penmanship, and support my w