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All the morning, there were light breezes and warm air; but a fine sea-breeze set in, in the afternoon, and brought us, at seven o'clock, to anchor at "Grand Jack," or "Jack-a-Jack." The distributors of names along this coast deserve no credit for their taste. The masters of two English merchantmen came on board and spent the evening.
As they were sailing down the coast, they were informed that the natives of La Hoo, and Jack-a-jack, had been warring for three years previously, and were still at variance, but during that long period only one single decrepit old woman, who found it no easy matter to run as fast as her countrymen, was left behind, and became the solitary victim of a hundred engagements.
Visit from two English Trading-Captains The Invisible King of Jack-a-Jack Human Sacrifices French Fortresses at Grand Bassam, at Assinee, and other points Objections to the Locality of Liberia Encroachments on the Limits of that Colony Arrival at Axim Sketches of that Settlement Dix Cove Civilized Natives An Alligator. April 14. Under way from Cape Lahon at daylight.
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