INTERIOR OF AFRICA. 101 
Feb. i6th. We were informed that a number of people would 
go from this town to Jarra on the day following ; and as the 
road was much infested by the Moors, we resolved to stay and 
accompany the travellers. In the meantime we were told, that 
a few days before our arrival, most of the Bushreens and people 
of property in Funingkedy had gone to Jarra, to consult about 
removing their families and effects to that town, for fear of the 
approaching war ; and that the Moors, in their absence, had 
stolen some of their cattle. 
About two o'clock, as I was lying asleep upon a bullock's 
hide behind the door of the hut, I was awakened by the screams 
of women, and a general clamour and confusion among the 
inhabitants. At first I suspected that the Bambarrans had ac- 
tually entered the town ; but observing my boy upon the top 
of one of the huts, I called to him to know what was the matter. 
He informed me that the Moors were come a second time to 
steal the cattle, and that they were now close to the town. I 
mounted the roof of the hut, and observed a large herd of bul- 
locks coming towards the town, followed by five Moors on 
horseback, who drove the cattle forward with their muskets. 
When they had reached the wells, which are close to the town, 
the Moors selected from the herd sixteen of the finest beasts, 
and drove them off at full gallop. During this transaction, 
the townspeople, to the number of five hundred, stood collected 
close to the walls of the town ; and when the Moors drove the 
cattle away, though they passed within pistol-shot of them, the 
inhabitants scarcely made a shew of resistance. I only saw 
four muskets fired, which, being loaded with gunpowder of the 
