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failed through the mismanagement of their tackle ; 
yet they rejected all offered instructions as to the 
mode of better employing it. It appears from M. 
Dupuis, that this wretched spot, called El Gazie, 
is often the scene of a similar catastrophe. Tra- 
ders, then, from all parts of the desert, and even 
from Morocco, hasten thither, in hopes of obtain- 
ing articles of value in return for trifles from the 
ignorant plunderers. In this trade of a wreck, 
watches, muslins, silks, &c. are received for dates, 
coarse linens, and the few other articles which are 
of use in this wretched mode of life ; bank notes 
are often obtained for a mere trifle. 
Soon after their captivity the crew were stripped 
naked, and carried along with the Moors on a jour- 
ney to the east. The captain, who seems to have 
lost all prudence, and to have indulged in the most 
furious marks of impotent resentment, was killed ; 
the rest seem to have been tolerably treated. In 
about forty-four days, they came to the vicinity of 
Soudenny, a negro village, which seems situated 
on the northern frontier of Bambarra. Here, con« 
cealing themselves in the hills and bushes, they 
seized and made slaves of all the straggling indivi- 
duals who fell in their way. The people of the 
village, however, received notice of their haunts, 
and, coming out in a body of forty or fifty, sur- 
rounded and made prisoners of the whole party. 
After being kept four days at Soudenny, they 
