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rigid Bushreens, they were accommodated with two of Karfa's 
huts, and sold their goods to very great advantage. 
On the 24th <3f January, Karfa returned to Kamalia with a 
number of people, and thirteen prime slaves which he had pur- 
chased. He likewise brought with him a young girl whom he 
had married at Kancaba, as his fourth wife, and had given her 
parents three prime slaves for her. She was kindly received at 
the door of the baloon by Karfa's other wives, who conducted 
their new acquaintance and co-partner into one of the best 
huts, which they had caused to be swept and white- washed, on 
purpose to receive her. * 
My clothes were by this time become so very ragged, that 
I was almost ashamed to appear out of doors ; but Karfa, on 
the day after his arrival, generously presented me with such 
a garment and trowsers, as are commonly worn in the country. 
The slaves which Karfa had brought with him were all of 
them prisoners of war ; they had been taken by the Bambarran 
army in the kingdoms of Wassela and Kaarta, and carried to 
Sego, where some of them had remained three years in irons. 
From Sego they were sent, in company with a number of other 
captives, up the Niger in two large canoes, and offered for sale 
at Yamina, Bammakoo, and Kancaba ; at which places the 
greater number of the captives were bartered for gold-dust, and 
the remainder sent forward to Kankaree. 
Eleven of them confessed to me that they had been slaves 
from their infancy ; but the other two refused to give any account 
* The Negroes white-wash their huts with a mixture of bone-ashes and water, 
to which is commonly added a little gum. 
