The river Jensu, which falls into the Atlantic about three quarters of a mile to the east of Winnebah, is said by the natives to be navigable upwards of two hundred miles; but I only ascended it about six or seven miles. It is very shallow at its mouth during the ebb of the tide, owing to the bar invariably formed at the mouth of all rivers on this part of the African coast by the tremendous surf which always prevails. About half a mile above its mouth the river deepens; its banks are abrupt, and about five feet above the surface of the water. In the dry season the current is very sluggish, not exceeding a mile and a half an hour. For two miles from the sea trees and large shrubs adorn both banks, full of various birds of beautiful plumage. Amongst these I could distinguish two species of king-fishers, one as large as a thrush, and the other not larger than a tom-tit; the smaller much darker in colour than the other. Alligators are very large and numerous; and I observed the sea flowed at a considerable height up the river as far as I ascended. CHAPTER V. Native Laws--Roguery of the Natives; White Men fair Game--Superstition--Fetish-houses--Colour, Habits, &c. of the Natives--Prevalence of Drunkenness--Disgusting Neglect--Fashion in Shaving--Tally System--Population--Accra--Mr. Bannerman and his Hospitality--Danish Accra, partly Demolished--Occasion of this--Attempt to assassinate the Governor--English Accra, its Trade much reduced by Competition with Americans--Currency--Merchants’ Houses--Fruits and Flowers--The Coromantine Apple--Natives most expert Thieves--Population--Circumcision--Mode of Carrying Children--Sleep in the Open Air--Manufactures--Fish--Difficult Landing--Salt Lake--Soil--Gaming and Drinking--Population of English Accra--Stock--Cruel Treatment of Horses--Want of Natural Affection--Sail for Ahguay--Boarded by an English Brig--Mr. Hutton’s Factory at Ahguay--A Drunken Caboceer--His Dress and Attendants--A Principal Fetish-woman, her Dress--Dance performed by Her--Natives of Ahguay--Slave-merchants--Cotton and Indigo--Markets--Treatment of Slaves--Characteristics of Africans--Fish--Method of Dressing the Crab--Alligators--Alligator-hunt--Plants and Fruits--The Velvet-Tamarind--Popoe--Mr. Lawson, a Native Merchant--Introduction to his Wives--Merchants, their Mode of Living--Slave-Trade--Population--Manufactures--Gaming and Drinking--Kankie--M. De Suza’s Slave Establishment--His House--His Domestic Slaves--Noisy Reception by the Caboceer--Treatment of Slaves.