I have performed in Georgetown, Dema rara, British Guinea. We there met with great hospitality, all receptions and balls bsing postponed in our honor until our performances were conoluded. We here completed our season, having had a most successful tour. I deoided to remain in the i oountry, and to accept the invitation of Captain Fortesoue to visit a penal settlement about 200 miles up tbe Detna rara River. He placed a orew of eight Indians, a rush covered bateau, and a cottage on the banks of the river at my disposal. I hers eaw a self-sustaining penal settlement, where the convicts raised their own vegetables, and were employed sawing lignum vitge, rosewood, mahogany, ebony, etc. There were 600 coolies and native blacks in the settlement, and only one -white prisoner. He was a Jolly Jack tar, who for a lark one

day when out with some merchantmen who were loading wood tumbled a coolie into the river to see if he could swim. The river was full of sharks and of the consistency of pea soup. The Coolie disappeared, and shortly afterwards the water was tinged with the unfortunate fellow's blood, For this Jack received seven years' banishment to tha penal settlement, and being the only European prisoner there he appeared like a white spot in a black oasis. Another prisoner was pointed out to me by the captain as a very gentle creature. He was a coolie, and at one time carried on business in a small way as a pickled pork merchant. This fellow's wife, who had been unfaithful to hiim, suddenly disappeared. One morning, as he was carrying on a brisk business, a customer noticed two fingers of a hand among the "pork." It turned out on ex amination that he had cut his wife into small pieces, pickled her, and Bold her as pork. This worthy received a life sentence as a reward for his exertions. A HORRIBLE SIGHT.
