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" thousands who fell in the woods, I will not therefore kill 
" you in cold blood, but I will retain you as my slave, until I 
*' perceive that your presence in your own kingdom will be no 
*' longer dangerous to your neighbours; and then I will con- 
" sider of the proper way of disposing of you." Abdulkader 
was accordingly retained, and worked as a slave, for three 
months; at the end of which period, Darnel listened to the 
solicitations of the inhabitants of Foota Torra, and restored to 
them their king. Strange as this story may appear, I have no 
doubt of the truth of it; it was told me at Malacotta by the 
Negroes; it was afterwards related to me by the Europeans 
on the Gambia; by some of the French at Goree; and con- 
firmed by nine slaves, who were taken prisoners along with 
Abdulkader, by the watering place in the woods, and carried 
in the same ship with me to the West Indies, 
