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immediately to inform his father, that I should set out for 
Kooniakary early the next day. The old man made many fri- 
volous objections ; and at length gave me to understand, that I 
must not think of departing, without first paying him the same 
duties he was entitled to receive from all travellers ; besides 
which, he expected, he said, some acknowledgment for his kind- 
ness towards me. Accordingl}^ on the morning of the 9th, ray 
friend Demba, with a number of people, came to me, and said 
that they were sent by Tiggity Sego for my present, and wished 
to see what goods I had appropriated for that purpose. I knew 
that resistance was hopeless, and complaint unavailing ; and 
being in some measure prepared, by the intimation I had re- 
ceived the night before, I quietly offered him seven bars of 
amber, and five of tobacco. After surveying these articles for 
some time very coolly, Demba laid them down, and told me, 
this was not a present for a man of Tiggity Sego's consequence, 
who had it in his power to take whatever he pleased from me. 
He added, that if I did not consent to make him a larger offer- 
ing, he would carry all my, baggage to his father, and let him 
choose for himself. I had no time for reply ; for Demba and 
his attendants immediately began to open my bundles, and 
spread the different articles upon the floor, where they under- 
went a more strict examination than they had done at Joag. 
Every thing that pleased them, they took without scruple ; 
and amongst other things, Demba seized the tin box, which 
had so much attracted his attention in crossing the rivcr. Upon 
collecting the scattered remains of my little fortune after these 
people had left me, 1 found that, as at Joag, I had been plun- 
