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malia, having spent all their money, and become in a great 
measure dependent upon Karfa's hospitality, beheld me with 
an eye of envy, and invented many ridiculous and trifling 
stories to lessen me in Karfa's esteem. And in the begin- 
ning of December, a Sera-Woolli Slatee, with five slaves, ar- 
rived from Sego: this man too, spread a number of malicious 
reports concerning me ; but Karfa paid no attention to them, 
and continued to shew me the same kindness as formerly. As 
I was one day conversing with the slaves which this Slatee had 
brought, one of them begged me to give him some victuals. I 
told him I was a stranger, and had none to give. He replied, 
I gavej/oM victuals when you was hungry.— Have you forgot 
the man who brought you milk at Karrankalla.'' But (added 
" he, with a sigh) the irons were not then upon my legs!" I im- 
mediately recollected him, and begged some ground-nuts from 
Karfa to give him, as a return for his former kindness. He 
told me that he had been taken by the Bambarrans, the day 
after the battle at Joka, and sent to Sego ; where he had been 
purchased by his present master, who was carrying him down 
to Kajaaga. Three more of these slaves were from Kaarta, 
and one from Wassela, all of them prisoners of war. They 
stopped four days at Kamalia, and were then taken to Bala, 
where they remained until the river Kokoro was fordable, and 
the grass burnt. 
In the beginning of December, Karfa proposed to complete 
his purchase of slaves; and for this purpose, collected all the 
debts which were ow'ng to him in his own country. And on the 
19th, being accompanied by three Slatees, he departed for 
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