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delirious, left them to the care of the Dooty of the village; 
having given him amber and beads sufficient to purchase 
victuals for them if they lived, and to bury them if they 
died. If they recovered, he engaged to join them to the 
first coffle travelling to Gambia. From Serimanna in 
two hours we reached Fajeminia : this is only a small 
village, but fortified with a high wall. The chief, from 
whom the village has its name, formerly resided at Fa- 
ramba, to the East of this ; but has lately retired here, 
leaving his people and slaves at Faramba. Fajemmia is 
the most powerful chief of Konkodoo, and holds under his 
subjection all the country from Toombin to the Ba Fing. 
The customs paid by travellers being always in pro- 
portion to the power and mischievous disposition of the 
chiefs ; those paid at Fajemmia are of course very high. 
I paid as follows : 
Amber 
Bars 
15 
Beads 
50 
Scarlet 
20 
Amber 
35 
Amber 
14 
Barraloolo 
15 
149 bars ; 
a soldier's musket, a pair of handsome pistols, a handsome 
sword, a great coat, and one hundred gun flints. 
