CHAP. LV.--No river at New Sestros--Beach--Kroomen and Fishmen--Bushmen--Kroo boats--I engage a fleet of them for my factory--I ship a cargo of slaves in a hurry--My mode of operating--Value of rum and mock coral beads--Return of the cruiser 344 CHAP. LVI.--I go on a pleasure voyage in the Brilliant, accompanied by GOVERNOR FINDLEY--Murder of the Governor--I fit out an expedition to revenge his death--A fight with the beach negroes--We burn five towns--A disastrous retreat--I am wounded--Vindication of Findley's memory 349 CHAP. LVII.--What Don Pedro Blanco thought of my Quixotism--Painful effects of my wound--Blanco's liberality to Findley's family--My slave _nurseries_ on the coast--Digby--I pack nineteen negroes on my launch, and set sail for home--Disastrous voyage--Stories--I land my cargo at night at MONROVIA, and carry it through the colony!--Some new views of commercial Morality! 356 CHAP. LVIII.--My compliments to British cruisers--The BONITO--I offer an inspection of my barracoons, &c., to her officers--A lieutenant and the surgeon are sent ashore--My reception of them, and the review of my slaves, feeding, sleeping, &c.--Our night frolic--Next morning--A surprise--The Bonito off, and her officers ashore!--Almost a quarrel--How I pacified my guests over a good breakfast--Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander 362 CHAP. LIX.--Ups and downs--I am captured in a Russian vessel, and sent to Sierra Leone--It is resolved that I am to be despatched to England--I determine to take French leave--Preparation to celebrate a birthday--A feast--A martinet--CORPORAL BLUNT--Pleasant effects of cider--A swim for life and liberty at night--My concealment--I manage to equip myself, and depart in a Portuguese vessel--I ship thirty-one slaves at Digby--A narrow escape from a cruiser--My return to New Sestros--Report of my death--How I restored confidence in my actual existence--Don Pedro's notion of me--The gift of a donkey, and its disastrous effect on the married ladies of New Sestros 369 CHAP. LX.--The confession of a dying sailor--SANCHEZ--The story of the murder of Don Miguel, and destruction of his factory by THOMPSON--A piratical revenge--An _auto-da-fe_ at sea 377 CHAP. LXI.--My establishment at Digby--The rival kinsmen, and their quarrel--JEN-KEN, THE BUSHMAN--My arrival at Digby, carousal--A night attack by the rival and his allies--A rout--Horrid scenes of massacre, barbarity, and cannibalism--My position and ransom 382 CHAP. LXII.--I escape from the bloody scene in a boot with a Krooman--Storm on the coast--My perilous attempt to land at Gallinas--How I am warned off--An African tornado--The sufferings of my companion and myself while exposed in the boat, and our final rescue 387