Their apartments, he said, were fitted up as advantageously for them as circumstances could possibly admit: they had several meals a day; some, of their own country provisions, with the best sauces of African cookery; and, by way of variety, another meal of pulse, according to the European taste.

After breakfast they had water to wash themselves, while their apartments were perfumed with frankincense and lime-juice.

Before dinner they were amused after the manner of their country; instruments of music were introduced: the song and the dance were promoted: games of chance were furnished them: the men played and sang, while the women and girls made fanciful ornaments from beads, with which they were plentifully supplied.

They were indulged in all their little fancies, and kept in sprightly humour.

Another of them had said, when the sailors were flogged, it was out of the hearing of the Africans, lest it should depress their spirits.