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bout that I had been with him before I went to the Braknas, 
and that 1 had proposed to receive my education from him ; 
entering at the same time pretty fully into his motive for 
not receiving me, which he said was founded upon the ac- 
counts he had heard of me. As soon as Schims perceived 
me, he dropped the subject and congratulated me on my con- 
version ; I reproached him for his refusal to take me into his 
camp, and he then repeated vrhat he had just said, and laid 
great stress upon the bad account that the children of the 
Senegal * had given him of me ; but for this, he said, he 
should not have hesitated to receive me and to treat me as his 
own son. 
I strove during the rest of the conversation to counteract 
the bad impression which these imputations had made upon 
my marabout ; but I saw that I had lost all his confidence, 
and that it was only by a speedy return, and an apparent 
resolution to settle in kis country, that I could impose upon 
him or his nation. 
* The name given to the Mulattoes. 
