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to the Moors : the full complement was made up afterwards, 
by means equally unjust and arbitrary. 
June 8th. In the afternoon, Ali sent his chief slave to in- 
form me, that he was about to return to Bubaker ; but as he 
would only stay there a few days, to keep the approaching 
festival {Banna Salee), and then return to Jarra, I had per- 
mission to remain with Daman until his return. This was 
joyful news to me ; but I had experienced so many disappoint- 
ments, that I was unwilling to indulge the hope of its being 
true, until Johnson came and told me that Ali, with part of the 
horsemen, were actually gone from the town, and that the rest 
were to follow him in the morning. 
June 9th. Early in the morning, the remainder of the 
Moors departed from the town. They had, during their stay, 
committed many acts of robbery ; and this morning, with the 
most unparalleled audacity, they seized upon three girls, who 
were bringing water from the wells, and carried them away 
into slavery. 
The anniversary of Banna Salee, at Jarra, very well deserved 
to be called a festival. The slaves were all finely clad on this 
occasion, and the householders vied with each other in provid- 
ing large quantities of victuals, which they distributed to all 
their neighbours, with the greatest profusion : hunger was 
literally banished from the town ; man, woman, and child, bond 
and free, all had as much as they could eat. 
June 12th. Two people, dreadfully wounded, were disco- 
vered at a watering-place, in the woods ; one of them had just 
breathed his last, but the other was brought alive to Jarra. 
