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as I returned home, upon the knavish disposition of my new 
African friends. 
Since I had been at Freetown I had resumed the French 
costume. Perhaps, said I, these Moors have found out my 
imposture ; I give myself out for an Arabian and a Musul- 
man, without forsaking my European dress and habits ; 
I cannot act my part completely unless I renounce them. 
I could not well effect this change at Sierra-Leone ; for 
the white inhabitants, who were all acquainted with my 
person, would not have been more indulgent to me than 
those of St. Louis. I thought therefore of leaving Freetown, 
and proposed to go to a place where I might land in my 
Arabian dress without inconvenience. I fixed upon Ka- 
kondy, a village situated on the Rio Nunez, fifty leagues to 
the north of Sierra-Leone, where I knew that there was no 
European establishment. 
Before I set out for Kakondy, I converted my two thou- 
sand francs partly into specie and partly into merchandise. 
This was my whole fortune, but I meant to devote it all 
to the accomplishment of my project. I expended seventeen 
hundred francs in the purchase of gunpowder, paper, sundry 
glass wares, tobacco, amber, coral, silk handkerchiefs, knives, 
scissors, looking-glasses, cloves, three pieces of Guinea stuff, 
and an umbrella. All these goods formed a bundle of no 
great bulk ; they did not weigh one hundred pounds, for 1 
had bought but a small quantity of each article ; the price of 
European goods being then high in all the colonies. I put 
into my girdle the rest of my two thousand francs, half 
in silver and half in gold. Thanks to the kindness of my 
friends at Sierra-Leone, I had no need to buy medicines ; 
they furnished me with cream of tartar, jalap, calomel, and 
different kinds of salts, sulphate of quinine, diachylon plais- 
ter, and nitrate of silver. 
Provided with all these useful things, and with two 
pocket compasses to direct me, and dressed in my Arabian 
