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where, eighteen months before, I had parted from my friend Dr. 
Laidley ; an interval, during which I had not beheld the face 
of a Christian, nor once heard the delightful sound of my 
native language. 
Being now arrived within a short distance of Pisania, from 
whence my journey originally commenced, and learning that 
my friend Karfa was not likely to meet with an immediate 
opportunity of selling his slaves on the Gambia ; it occurred to 
me to suggest to him, that he would find it for his interest to 
leave them at Jindey, until a market should offer. Karfa 
agreed with me in this opinion ; and hired, from the chief man 
of the town, huts for their accommodation, and a piece of land 
on which to employ them, in raising corn, and other provisions 
for their maintenance. With regard to himself, he declared that 
he would not quit me until my departure from Africa. We set 
out accordingly, Karfa, myself, and one of the Foulahs belong- 
ing to the coffle, early on the morning of the 9th ; but although 
I was now approaching the end of my tedious and toilsome 
journey ; and expected in another day, to meet with countrymen 
and friends, I could not part, for the last time, with my un- 
fortunate fellow-travellers, doomed, as I knew most of them to 
be, to a life of captivity and slavery in a foreign land, without 
great emotion. During a wearisome peregrination of more 
than five hundred British miles, exposed to the burning rays 
of a tropical sun, these poor slaves, amidst their own infinitely- 
greater sufferings would commiserate mine ; and frequently, 
of their own accord, bring water to quench my thirst, and at 
night collect branches and leaves to prepare me a bed in the 
