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true, was far from him ; but that I was there to represent 
and answer for him. He tlien accepted my offer and pro- 
mised me his assistance. The King ordered a bullock to 
be killed for me. I staid to the end of that moon.* 
The firsttofthe following moon, being the day I intended 
to depart, a prince of Tombuctoo came to Sego, to demand 
a wife who had been promised him. The King went out 
to meet him with a guard of six hundred men, almost 
naked and well armed. The prince said, that being a 
friend of his father (Manchong), he thought it his duty to 
come and let him know of his coming to take the wife 
promised him; the King replied, " Why have you per- 
mitted the people of your country to plunder one my cara- 
vans, J and why did you not prevent it, and why did you 
yourself plunder another, belonging also to me ?" The King 
left the prince out, and returned to his house with the 
guards, after unloading their muskets. The prince went 
to his lodging. He reflected how critically he was situated, 
and that by his bad behaviour, the wife which he had once 
been promised, had been given to another ; and that the 
people of the caravan he had plundered, had been before 
the King and there had denounced him ; and that his life 
* September 13, 1810. 
t September 14, 1810. They reckon one day when the moon is seen. 
X My landlord lost his share in that caravan ; seven hundred gros* of gold 
and a slave. * Gros. (Qu. grains?) 
