vE3 An Account of Mr. Brown's Travels 
of Mohammed! When a number of people was collected 
around him, he related the fuppofed injury he had received irt 
the ftrongeft terms, and exhorted them to take their arms 
and facrifice the Caffre. He had charged a carbine, and 
affected to come forwards to execute his threats, when fome 
one of the company, who had advanced fartheft and faw 
Mr. Brown, called out to the reft that he was armed, and 
prepared to refift. It was then agreed among the affembly 
that fome method of punifhment might be found which pro- 
miufed more fecurity and profit to the complainant, and woulkt 
be more formidable to the guilty. The man who aéted as 
his broker was to take tlie flave as if fhe had really been vio- 
Jated, and agreed to pay whatever her mafter fhould charge 
as the price: The latter had the modefty to afk ten head 
of flaves; and if Mr. Brown carried the matter before the 
Cadi, which he fuppofed he would hardly venture to do, he 
had fuborned witnefles to prove that he had received of hiny 
property to that amount. 
On Mr. Brown’s removal from Cobbé to El Fafher, he 
had caufed his fmall remaining property, among which were 
a few articles of value, but many of much ufe to’ him, to be 
fodged in the houfe of Hoffein, the owner of the flave, and 
his companion. On his return thither, which happened a 
few days after the accident, he claimed it; but they refifted, 
as they alleged, at the fuit of his broker, and would not de- 
fiver it till the value of ten flaves fhould be paid to him. Mr. 
Brown from the firft confidered their conduct as fo violent 
that if it reached the ears of government the claim would 
unqueftionably be abandoned; and, indeed, his adverfaries 
had refted their expectations only on the timidity which 
they had been accuftomed to obferve in Chriftians of the © 
country, whofe accufation and condemnation are in faét the 
fame. He had not negleéted to give the tranfaction all the 
notoriety he could without having recourfe to public autho- 
rity, and thofe to whom he had applied were decidedly in his 
favour. He therefore now went to his adverfaries, Hoflein 
and his companion, and in their prefence offered to Ali 
Hamad a promiffory note for the yalue of ten flaves at the 
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