Visit from two English Trading-Captains--The invisible King of Jack-a-Jack--Human sacrifices--French fortresses at Grand Bassam, at Assinoe, and other points--Objections to the locality of Liberia--Encroachments on the limits of that Colony--Arrival in Axim--Sketches of that Settlement--Dixcove--Civilized Natives--An Alligator. CHAP. XVII. Dutch Settlement at El Mina--Appearance of the Town--Cape Coast Castle--Burial-place of L. E. L.--An English dinner--Festivity on shipboard--British, Dutch, and Danish Accra--Native wives of Europeans--A Royal Princess--An Armadillo--Sail for St. Thomas--Aspect of the Island. CHAP. XVIII. Excursion to St. Anne de Chaves--Mode of drying Coffee--Black Priests--Madam Domingo's Hotel--Catering for the Mess--Man swallowed by a Shark--Letters from home--Fashionable equipage--Arrival at the Gaboon--King Glass and Louis Philippe--Mr. Griswold--Mr. and Mrs. Wilson--Character of the Gaboon People--Symptoms of illness. CHAP. XIX. Recovery from Fever--Projected Independence of Liberia--Remarks on Climate and Health--Peril from Breakers--African Arts--Departure for the Cape de Verds--Man Overboard. CHAP. XX. Glimpses of the bottom of the Sea--The Gar-fish--The Booby and the Mullet--Improvement of Liberia--Its prospects--Higher social position of its Inhabitants--Intercourse between the White and Colored. Races--A night on shore--Farewell to Liberia--Reminiscence of Robinson Crusoe. CHAP. XXI. Sierra Leone--Sources of its Population--Appearance of the Town and surrounding Country--Religious Ceremonies of the Mandingoes--Treatment of liberated Slaves--Police of Sierra Leone--Agencies for Emigration to the West Indies--Colored Refugees from the United States--Unhealthiness of Sierra Leone--Dr. Fergusson--Splendid Church--Melancholy Fate of a Queen's Chaplain--Currency--Probable Ruin of the Colony. CHAP. XXII. Failure of the American Squadron to capture Slave-Vessels--Causes of that Failure--High character of the Commodore and Commanders--Similar ill-success of the French Squadron--Success of the English, and why--Results effected by the American Squadron. JOURNAL OF AN AFRICAN CRUISER. CHAPTER I. Departure--Mother Carey's Chickens--The Gulf stream--Rapid Progress--The French Admiral's Cook--Nautical Musicians--The Sick Man--The Burial at Sea--Arrival at the Canaries--Santa Cruz--Love and Crime--Island of Grand Canary--Troglodytes near Las Palmas.