riley's narrative. 
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thdusand slaves; he has also a very large army 
which fight with guns, spears, bows, and arrows. 
When he goes out, he rides on a huge beast, call- 
ed Ilfement (elephant), and is attended by two 
hundred guards. The people are not Mooselmins, 
but addicted to various Pagan superstitions ; for 
which reasons, though they are honest, hospitable, 
and kind-hearted, Sidi Hamet utters the pious 
wish, 44 that they may soon be driven out of this 
44 goodly land." 
The following is so important, that we shall give 
it in the narrator's own words. 
" The inhabitants catch a great many fish ; they 
4 5 have boats made of great trees, cut off and hoi- 
f? lowed out, that will hold ten, fifteen, or twenty 
44 negroes, and the brother of the king told one of 
" my Mooselmin companions who could understand 
" him, (for I could not,)' that he was going to set 
fj out in a few days with sixty boats, and to carry 
44 five hundred slaves down the river, first to the 
" southward and then to the westward, where they 
44 should come to the great water, and sell them to 
44 pale people, who came there in great boats, and 
44 brought musquets and powder, and tobacco, and 
" blue cloth, and knives, &c. , he said it was a 
44 great way, and would take him three moons to 
44 get there, and he should be gone twenty moons 
44 before he could get back by land, but should be 
44 very rich." — 44 We saw a great many of these 
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