LAST MISSION TO AFRICA. 
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The whole of the asses were gone, and only Mr. Ander- 
son and myself remained, having sent our guide to inform 
Mansa Kussan of our departure. Our guide returned, and 
told us that Mansa Kussan had said that, unless 1 gave 
him ten bars of all the different sorts of merchandise, he 
would not allow us to pass farther up the country ; and if 
we attempted to pass without his consent, he would do his 
utmost to plunder us in the woods. •ifO'-ii 
Recalled the people and asses, and endeavoured to settle 
matters in a friendly manner. Suspecting that he would 
not have used such language unless he had received assur- 
ances from some other towns that they would join him in 
attacking us, sent him some more scarlet and amber by 
our guide ; being unwilling to go singly into the town, 
having received information that it was the intention of 
the king to detain me, with a view to make me pay hand- 
somely for my release. 
Mansa Kussan seized the money which I paid for the 
ass in the seller's hands, and what evinced his hostile in- 
tentions still more, he seized the ass till such time as the 
palaver should be settled. I shall here give a list of the 
different articles of trade paid by me at different times, to 
Mansa Kussan at Julifunda. 
Sent at first. Bars. 
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