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SCUFFLE WITH MOORS. 
thrust his hand into my bundle, which was placed on a 
bullock, and pulled out a roll of papers, among which were 
letters of the utmost consequence to me, and carried them 
off. I ran after him, and had a long struggle with him for 
the purpose of recovering them, but several negroes inter- 
fered and knocked me down : at length the Moor who acted 
as a guide to me came to my assistance and obtained restitu- 
tion of my roll. After some altercation they let me go ; 
they nevertheless wanted to force me to give them some 
tobacco, which they had seen in my bundle; I would 
gladly have made a sacrifice to get rid of them, but this 
article was absolutely necessary to me, and I persisted in my 
refusal to give them any thing. They left us and we conti- 
nued our route, without any other accident, to the camp 
to which my guides were bound, where we arrived about 
two in the morning. By the way I had suffered severely from 
thirst ; I appeased it with milk and water, and lay down 
under a tent for about an hour, after bargaining with a man 
to take me on a carrier-bullock to the French settlements 
for a hundred head of cloves. 
I set out and at five in the evening arrived at Richard- 
Tol, where I waited for an opportunity of proceeding. On 
the 18th 1 embarked in the Active cutter for Dagana. The 
night which I passed on board was as harassing as that 
which 1 spent at Leybar : at this season it is impossible to 
get any rest on board these small vessels unless you are 
provided with a mosquito-curtain ; the mosquitoes settling 
upon you in countless numbers and inflicting inexpressible 
torments. In the evening of the 19th 1 arrived at Dagana, 
where I sojourned eight days. During this time 1 took 
walks in the environs, especially towards the neighbouring 
marigot^ to the east of the village, where I had occasion 
to notice the ingenious manner, adopted by the negroes of 
* The name given at the Senegal to an arm of the river. 
