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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 into 
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 Ali, the Moorisli King of Ludamar, 
for two hundred horsemen, to enable him to make an attack 
upon the north gate of the town, and give the Bambarrans 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 engage- 
ment ; 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 intelligence of his 
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 
