MR. SCOTT IN TROUBLE. 25 



I found, however, I was reckoning without my 

 host, for a new difficulty had arisen, from the cir- 

 cumstance of Mr. Scott having come down to 

 Farree without the permission of Walda-anna, 

 the Governor of Ankobar. He was accordingly 

 given to understand that he must consider himself 

 a prisoner with me until the pleasure of the negoos 

 should be known as to our disposal. It was in 

 vain we expostulated with our surly gaoler ; we 

 were to be opposed by force if we attempted to 

 leave Farree, and other sentinels were charged 

 with the care of us. Something we did effect, and 

 that was the liberation of the messenger who was 

 detected bringing me a letter the day before, for as 

 soon as this request was made to the Wallasmah it 

 was at once acceded to, and the man was ordered 

 to be set at liberty. Taking this as an evidence of 

 some relaxation of the harsh treatment with which 

 we had been treated, we sat sometime chatting 

 with the old gentleman, and 1 hinted my intention 

 of making him some present if he would honour 

 me so far as to accept of my poor gifts. When we 

 got up from the ground where we had been sitting, 

 the Wallasmah directed his son, a fine young man 

 about three or four and twenty years old, to accom- 

 pany us to our residence ; a sufficient intimation of 

 his being graciously disposed, without the broad 

 hint given by one of his followers, who whispered 

 into the ears of Mr. Scott, " Give your memolagee 

 to that man." Our imprisoned servant not making 



