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Buckar Sano, the leading mercantile character on 
the Gambia. Thompson, on arriving, found him 
absent from Tenda ; but he received certain intel- 
ligence that this district was frequented by cara- 
vans from Barbary, a circumstance which he consi- 
dered as an important test of success in the object 
of his mission. It is said that, elated by the pro- 
gress he had made, and the difficulties surmounted, 
he not only neglected to conciliate the natives, but 
treated his own party with intolerable haughtiness. 
The prevailing report is, that, having quarrelled with 
some of the latter, a conflict ensued, in which he 
was killed. Whether the charges against him were 
well founded, or whether they were not prompted 
merely by a reluctance to follow him into new ad- 
ventures, is a question which there were no means 
of ever resolving. 
Jobson was not dismayed by this final catastrophe 
of all who had preceded him in the same career. 
He determined to employ the same vigour and zeal 
of his predecessor, combined with greater prudence. 
IJis first exploit was to seize a boat containing the 
effects of Hector Nunez, who was considered the 
ringleader in the destruction of the Catherine. 
This was the only step taken by him to avenge the 
wrong which his country had sustained. All the 
Portuguese whom he met, affected to speak with 
the utmost horror of the conduct of Nunez in 
