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utmost to redeem him, I saw him led off by three of Ali J s slaves, 
towards the camp at Bubaker. 
When the Moors had mounted their horses, I was ordered 
to follow them ; and after a toilsome journey through the woods, 
in a very sultry day, we arrived in the afternoon at a walled 
village, called Doombani ; where we remained two days, waiting 
for the arrival of some horsemen from the northward. 
On the 1st of June, we departed from Doombani towards 
Jarra. Our company now amounted to two hundred men, all 
on horseback ; for the Moors never use infantry in their wars. 
They appeared capable of enduring great fatigue ; but from 
their total want of discipline, our journey to Jarra was more 
like a fox-chase, than the inarch of an army. 
At Jarra, I took up my lodging at the house of my old ac- 
quaintance, Daman Jumma ; and informed him of every thing 
that had befallen me. I particularly requested him to use his 
interest with Ali, to redeem my boy, and promised him a bill 
upon Dr. Laidley, for the value of two slaves, the moment he 
brought him to Jarra. Daman very readily undertook to 
negotiate the business ; but found that Ali considered the boy 
as my principal interpreter, and was unwilling to part with 
him, lest he should fall a second time into my hands ; and be 
instrumental in conducting me to Bambarra. Ali therefore put 
off the matter from day to day ; but withal told Daman, that 
if he wished to purchase the boy for himself, he should have 
him thereafter, at the common price of a slave ; which Da- 
man agreed to pay for him, whenever Ali should send him to 
Jarra. 
