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night the wolves carried away Garland, the door of the hut 
where he died being left open. Buried Marshall on the 
morning following, in a corn field near the church, 
October 4th. — Mansong sent down two broken gun- 
locks, and a large pewter plate with a hole in the bottom 
of it, for me to repair ; and it was with much difficulty 
that I could persuade the messenger that none of us knew 
any thing about such occupations. 
October 6th. — Da, Mansong's eldest son, sent one canoe 
as a present, and requested me to sell him a bunderbuss, 
and three swords, with some blue and yellow broad cloth. 
Sent him three swords, and ten spans of yellow cloth ; 
received in return six thousand cowries. ieoixis^q**?* 
Sansanding contains, according to Koontie Mamadie's 
account, eleven thousand inhabitants. It has no public 
buildings, except the mosques, two of which, though built 
of mud, are by no means inelegant. The market place is 
a large square, and the different articles of merchandize 
are exposed for sale on stalls covered with mats, to shade 
them from the sun. The market is crowded with people 
from morning to night : some of the stalls contain nothing 
but beads ; others indigo in balls ; others wood-ashes in 
balls ; others Houssa and Jinnie cloth. I observed one 
stall with nothing but antimony in small bits ; another 
with sulphur, and a third with copper and silver rings and 
