Captain Lace, he said, had been long in the Slave Trade, and could give me very accurate information about it.

I accepted his offer.

On talking to Captain Lace, relative to the productions of Africa, he told me that mahogany grew at Calabar.

He began to describe a tree of that kind, which he had seen there.

This tree was from about eighteen inches to two feet in diameter, and about sixty feet high, or, as he expressed it, of the height of a tall chimney.