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attempts to storm it; but were always driven back with great- 
loss ; and Mansong, finding Daisy more formidable than he 
expected, resolved to cut off his supplies, and starve him inta 
submission. He accordingly sent all the prisoners he had 
taken, into Bambarra ; and having collected a considerable 
quantity of provisions, remained with his army two whole 
months in the vicinity of Gedingooma, without doing any 
thing decisive. During this time he was much harassed 
by sallies from the besieged ; and his stock of provisions 
being nearly exhausted, he sent to Ah, the Moorish King of 
Ludamar, for two hundred horsemen, to enable him to make an 
attack upon the north gate of the town, and give the Bambar- 
rans an opportunity of storming the place. Ali, though he had 
made an agreement with Mansong at the commencement of 
the war, to afford him assistance, now refused to fulfil his en- 
gagement ; which so enraged Mansong, that he marched part 
of his army to Funingkedy, with a view to surprise the camp of 
Benowm ; but the Moors having received intehigence of hiss 
design, fled to the northward ; and Mansong, without attempt- 
ing any thing farther, returned to Sego. This happened while I 
was myself in captivity in Ali's camp, as will hereafter be seen. 
As the King of Kaarta had now got quit of his most formi- 
dable antagonist, it might have been hoped that peace would 
have been restored to his dominions ; but an extraordinary in- 
cident involved him, immediately afterward, in hostilities with 
Kasson ; the king of which country dying about that time, the 
succession was disputed by his two sons. The younger (Sambo 
Sego, my old acquaintance) prevailed ; and drove his brother 
