All these I visited with the utmost dispatch.
I was absent only three weeks.

I had travelled a thousand miles in this time, had conversed with seventeen persons, and had prevailed upon three to be examined.
I had scarcely returned with the addition of these witnesses to my list, when I found it necessary to go out again upon the same errand.

This second journey arose in part from the following circumstances.

There was a matter in dispute relative to the mode of obtaining slaves in the rivers of Calabar and Bonny.

It was usual, when the slave-ships lay there, for a number of canoes to go into the inland country.