The circumstances, he said, belonging to this murder, were, if report were true, of a most atrocious nature, and deserved to be made the subject of inquiry.

As to the murder itself, he observed, it had passed as a notorious and uncontradicted fact.
This account was given me just as I had made an acquaintance with Mr.
Falconbridge, and I informed him of it.

He said he had no doubt of its truth.

For in his last voyage he went to Bonny himself, where the ship was then lying, in which the transaction happened.

The king and several of the black traders told him of it.