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Updated: June 3, 2025
These canoes had come thus far for the purpose of escorting them into their country. King Forday was a complaisant venerable-looking old man, but was rather shabbily dressed, partly in the European and partly in the native style.
He informed them that slaves were very scarce, and obtained with difficulty and expense. Richard Lander was now invited to visit King Forday, and he accordingly complied with the summons. His house was situated about a hundred yards distant from that of King Boy, and on entering it, he found him sitting, half drunk, with about a dozen of his wives, and a number of dogs in a small filthy room.
Forday is the cause of it, and he displays all the artifice, chicanery, and low cunning of a crafty and corrupt mind.
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