INTERIOR OF AFRICA. ^I'J 
Bambarra, that he sent messengers to sue for peace, and in 
order to obtain it, consented to deliver to Moossee a certain 
number of slaves every year; and return every thing that had 
been taken from the inhabitants of Gotto. Moossee, thus 
triumphant, returned to Gotto, where he was declared king, 
and the capital of the country is called by his name. 
On the west of Gotto, is the kingdom of Baedoo, which 
was conquered by the present King of Bambarra about seven 
years ago, and has continued tributary to him ever since. 
West of Baedoo, is Maniana; the inhabitants of which, ac- 
cording to the best information I was able to collect, are cruel 
and ferocious; carrying their resentment towards their enemies, 
so far as never to give quarter; and even to indulge themselves 
with unnatural and disgusting banquets of human flesh. 
I am well aware that the accounts which the Negroes give 
of their enemies, ought to be received with great caution; 
but I heard the same account in so matiy different kingdoms, 
and from such variety of people, whose veracity I had no 
occasion to suspect, that I am disposed to allow it some degree 
of credit. The inhabitants of Bambarra, in the course of a 
long and bloody war, must have had frequent opportunities of 
satisfying themselves as to the fact : and if the report had been 
entirely without foundation, I cannot conceive why the term 
Ma dummulo, (man eaters), should be applied exclusively to 
the inhabitants of Maniana. 
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