CHAP. XIII. 
CONVERSATION WITH MAHOOMOO-PELOO AND 
SOME OF HIS PRINCIPAL MEN— ACCOUNT OF 
AARON, A RUNAWAY SLAVE— DANCE OF THE 
NATIVES. 
We got Mahoomoo-Peloo and some of his prin- 
cipal men into the tent, in the evening, in order to 
find out their views respecting the reception of a 
Missionary. I began the conversation by inform- 
ing him that I had no power, from the friends of 
the heathen in the far country, to promise to send 
him one. Yet if they were desirous of having 
a Missionary to reside among them, I would state 
their wishes to those friends of the Matchappees, 
who had sent out the other Missionaries. I 
added, that the expenses of the journey would 
amount in value to as many oxen as his inclosure 
for cattle could contain. To make him understand 
the matter, I drew on some paper the shape and 
position of Africa, also of the countries beyond it to 
the north, and of Britain, surrounded by the Great 
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