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lowing day. I refolved to remain at Kofcam in the houfc 

 the Iteghe had given me, as it was eafy to fee things were 

 drawing to a crifis, which would inevitably end in blood. 



It was not till the 23d of November I firft faw the Iteghe. 

 She fent for me early in the morning, and had a large break- 

 fafl prepared: Ay to Confu andJAyto Engedan were there ; fhe 

 looked very much worn out and indifpofed. When I came 

 firft into her prefence, I kneeled, with my forehead to the 

 ground. She put on a very ferious countenance, and, with- 

 out defning me to rife, faid gravely to her people about her, 

 " There, fays fhe, fee that madman, who in times like thefe, 

 when we the natives of the country are not fafe in our own 

 houfes, ralhly, againll all advice, runs out into the fields to 

 be hunted like a wild beall by every robber, of which this 

 country is fuU." 



She then made me a fign to rife, which I did, and kifTed 

 her hand. " Madam, faid I, if I did this, it was in confequence 

 of the good lellbns your majefty deigned to give me."-^" Me! 

 fays flie, with furprife, was it I that advifed you, at fuch a 

 time as this, to put yourfelf in the way of men like Coque 

 Abou Barea, and Woodage Afahel, to be ill-ufed, robbed, and 

 probably murdered ?" — " No, faid I, Madam, you certainly 

 never did give me fuch advice ; but you muft own that 

 every day I have heard you fay, when you was threatened 

 by a multitude of powerful enemies, that you was not 

 afraid, you was in God's hands, and not in theirs. Now, 

 Madam, Providence has hitherto proteded you : I have, in 

 humble imitation of you, had the fame Chriflian confidence, 

 and I have fucceeded. I knew I was in God's hands, and 

 therefore valued not the bad intentions of all the robbers 

 I in 



