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I might with security travel through your country/* He 
stopped me, saying, " What I have said to you is enough." 
I left the house with part of his slaves. I went to my 
lodging, and immediately completed the amount of sixty 
bars in powder, amber, &c. I took the horse Robert 
Ainsley had bought for me, three ducks, and the tin box 
he refused. I gathered all these things, and went with 
my landlord and offered them as presents to the King, 
which he accepted : in his presence I gave Sabila one 
bottle of powder ; to the King's singer one snuff-box. The 
King, on seeing these presents, (the only thing to cool his 
anger) told me he would lend me somebody who would 
conduct me straight to Sego. I said, " I could not go so 
" soon ; because if I did, whoever would see me would 
" think I deserted from him ; and I therefore thought 
" proper to stay where I was and rest myself awhile." 
The Kpng said to Sabila, " You see Isaaco appears to be 
" a courageous man ; if he had been of a weak-spirited 
*• mind, he would have run away, and left his things in 
*' my hands." I went home, and spent the rest of the 
day and the night. 
In the morning I departed with my people to Wassaba, 
tp fetch wy family and things ; I staid there two days ; 
but being uneasy in my mind, and being afraid of some- 
t^^^g planning against me, and as I had good reason to 
