04 TRAVELS: TO DISCOVER 
to meet Saloome at the bank of the river, and making a 
mark onthe ground with his knife, declared that his pa- 
tience was quite exhaufted by what he had been witnefs to 
at Mafuah and Dixan; and if now Saloomée, or any other 
man belonging to the Naylie, offered to pafs that mark, he 
would bind him hand and foot, and carry him to a place 
where he fhould be left tied to a tree, a prey to the lion and 
hyena. They all returned, and there our perfecution from 
the Naybe ended. But it was very evident, from Achmet’s 
behaviour and difcourfe, had we gone by Dobarwa, which 
was the road propofed by the Naybe, our fufferings would 
not have been as yet half finifhed, unlefs swat had ended 
with our lives. 
We remained under this tree the night of the 25th; ‘it 
will be to me a {tation ever memorable, as the firft where 
I ¥Yecovered a portion of that tranquillity of mind to which 
I had been a ftranger ever fince my arrival at Mafuah: We 
had been joined by about twenty loaded affes driven by 
Moors, and two loaded bulls’; for there is a {mall fort of 
this kind called Ber, which they make ufe of as beafts of 
burden. I called all thefe together to recommend good 
order to them, defiring every one to leave me that was not 
refolved to obey implicitly the orders I fhould give them, 
as to the hours and places of encamping, keeping watch at 
night, and fetting out in the morning. I appointed Yafine 
the judge of all difputes between them; and, if the differ- 
ence fhould be between Yafine and any one of them, or, if 
they fhould not be content with his decifion, then my de- 
termination was to be final. They all‘confented with great 
marks of approbation. We then repeated the fedtah, and 
{wore to ftand by each other till the laft, without confider- 
