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lowing day. I refolved to remain at Kofcam in the houfe 
the Iteghé had given me, as it was eafy to fee things were. 
drawing to a crifis, which would inevitably end in blood. 
Ir was not till the 2 3d of November I firft faw the Iteghé, 
She fent for me early in the morning, and had a large break~ 
faft prepared: Ayto Confu and'Ayto Engedan were there; fhe 
looked very much worn out and indifpofed. WhenI came 
firft into her prefence, I kneeled, with my forehead to the 
ground. She put on a very ferious countenance, and, with- 
out defiring 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, rafhly, againft all advice, runs out into the fields to 
be hunted like a wild beaft by every robber, of which this 
country is full,” 
Sue then made me a fign to rife, which I did, and kiffed 
her hand. “ Madam, faid I, if I did this, it was in confequence 
of the good leffons your majefty deigned to give me.”—* Me! 
fays fhe, 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, {aid 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 protected you: I have, in 
humble imitation of you, had the fame Chriftian 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 
