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publicly by two of the singing men : they enumerated every 
little circumstance which had happened to the coffle ; beginning 
with the events of the present day, and relating every thing, 
in a backward series, until they reached Kamalia. When this 
history was ended, the master of the town gave them a small 
present ; and all the people of the coffle, both free, and enslaved, 
were invited by some person or other, and accommodated with 
lodging and provisions for the night. 
