D'Avezac failed to consider how his quest for information about Ijebu society did not take into consideration Osifekunde's vulnerabilities. Furthermore, while working under Vendryes, he (Vendryes) was in court seeking indemnity for lost property in Saint-Dominque under the principles of French national laws, private property, and national (and we might add racial) pride. Simultaneously, some of his investments in Brazil had been liquidated by two military officers claiming to be shareholders in a joint firm, though Vendryes said these men were no more than agents or trustees. ${ }^{43}$ Were these signs that Vendryes was financially broke? Having been 'sold' once in a business liquidation scheme could Osifekunde risk been sold again? Can we guess what Vendryes was saying about 'blacks' in his private space while lamenting his fate in the hands of black rulers in Haiti? Under these circumstances, in 1840, the informant disappeared-D'Avezac presumed he escaped back to Brazil. He was right. First, Osifekunde left Paris for Le Havre en route to Brazil.  
Before he left, however, he had provided extremely rich data on Ijebu society and people which D'Avezac, who later organized and published the account in 1845 as the Notice sur le pays et le peuple des Yébous en Afrique. While the first theme of the Notice concentrates on topography, physical geography and natural history, the second section on the people discusses issues ranging from morals and physiology to childhood, education, industry, philosophy, political organization, body markings, marriage, food, medicine, burial rites, music, architecture, employment, commerce, the numerical system, calendar, religion, and clothing. His memoir addressed an account of the early years of the Yoruba wars, dynastic ties, diplomacy and issues of war and peace. ${ }^{44}$  
In January 1841, Osifekunde boarded a Brazil-bound passenger boat, Renard, a 210-ton ship, belonging to or consigned by a trading house under the name Grandin and commanded by Captain Hadewick (later recorded as Hachwyoty or Haelewyelof?  
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