In May, 1823, he returned to London in the Crescent; and in the same year he sailed to Sierra Leone as chief mate of the gambia, but of 19 persons who went out in that vessel none but the captain, Mr. Nobbs, and two men of colour lived to return.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
He it was who hoodwinked the captain of a French ship of double the size and strength of his own, and fairly cheated him into the surrender of his craft without the firing of a single pistol or the striking of a single blow; he it was who sailed boldly into the port of gambia, on the coast of Guinea, and under the guns of the castle, proclaiming himself as a merchant trading for slaves.
"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates"
Howard I. Pyle
Then most of my comrades went off to the Portuguese factories near gambia, and I went to Cape Coast Castle, and got passage for, England, where I arrived in September.
"The World's Greatest Books, Vol III"
Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.