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butter and no payment from the king. I had 

 been much pleased with his conduct while at 

 Cuttum-Curaffee ; and as I could place the 

 greatest dependance upon his coolness and self- 

 possession in any situation, I determined to send 

 him up to Fundah, to try and get some repay- 

 ment for the quantity of things I had been 

 cheated out of there, and which I attributed in 

 a great measure to the infirm state of my health, 

 which prevented my making sufficiently energetic 

 exertions to recover them. 



As the river was rising rapidly, and no time 

 was to be lost, two days after his return I des- 

 patched him and Sarsfield with six Kroomen, 

 with orders to make no stay if they did not suc- 

 ceed at once in getting payment. They were to 

 call on board the Alburkah, Lieutenant Allen 

 being desirous of visiting Fundah. On the 19th 

 of June, they left us, and I heard of them two 

 days afterwards by a canoe from the Shary, that 

 had met them some distance up the river. 



While at Cuttum-CurafFee, I heard that the 

 Felatahs were expected to make a descent upon 

 the western or Kacundah side of the river, and 

 a few days after the departure of the boat, the 

 whole of the inhabitants of the towns on that 



