238 NATIVES OF YIMMAHAH. 



had been a palace, which it really was, compared 

 with those which we had been lately inhabiting. 



On my arrival I was visited by my old friend 

 the Mallam, and a number of my old acquaint- 

 ances, who came to congratulate me on my return ; 

 all of them bringing presents of some trifling 

 kind. I rewarded the old chief for taking care of 

 my boat, not a rope-yarn having been stolen ; and 

 I may here remark, that the whole time I was at 

 Yimmahah and Fundah, I never lost an article 

 of the slightest value from theft by the natives : 

 my own Kroomen pilfered and cheated me in 

 every way ; but the natives, although keen bar- 

 gainers, are honest, or rather they were so to 

 me ; and even the king never took anything 

 which I refused him, although he would threaten 

 and bluster about it. My goods were quite at 

 their mercy, if they had been inclined to take 

 them ; and, considering the condition in which 

 I was, their refraining from doing so may be 

 looked on as a decisive proof of the facility and 

 security with which trade may be carried on in 

 the country. 



In the morning, after a night's rest much need- 

 ed by us all, we departed from Yimmahah ; and 

 in the evening of the second day arrived on board 



