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soon as the natives saw their countrymen, they loaded the boat with yams, goats, fowls, honey, and palm-wine: and they would take nothing for them. They had the man and woman delivered to them, whom they carried away in their arms. The Dobson did not stay above eight, ten, or twelve days. This was the last trip her boat was to make, when they carried off the two slaves.
Mr. Morley says, that when off Taboo, two men came in a canoe, along-side his vessel. One of them came up, and sat on the netting, but would not come into the ship. The captain at length, inticing him, intoxicated him so with brandy and laudanum, that he fell in upon deck. The captain then ordered him to be put into the men's room, with a centry over him. The other man in the canoe, after calling in vain for his companion, paddled off fast towards the shore. The captain fired several musket balls after him, which did not hit him. About three or four leagues farther down, two men came on board from another canoe. While they were on board, a drum was kept beating near the man who had been seized, to prevent his hearing them, or they him.
He says again, in speaking of another part of the coast, that Captain Briggs's chief mate, in Old Calabar River, lying in ambush to stop the natives coming down the creek, pursued Oruk Robin John, who, jumping on shore, shot the mate through the head.
He says also, of another part of the coast, that a Mr. Walker, master of a sloop, was on board the Jolly Prince, Captain Lambert, when the king of Nazareth stabbed the captain at his own table, and took the vessel, putting all the whites to death, except the cook, a boy, and, he believes, one man. Captain Walker, being asked why the king of Nazareth took this step, said, it was on account of the people, whom Matthews had carried off from Gaboon and Cape Lopez the voyage before. Walker escaped, by knowing the language of the country.
Mr. Morley sailed afterwards with the same Captain Matthews to Gaboon River, where the Chiefs sons came on board him to demand what he had done withtheir
