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often surprised on awaking, to find pistachio-nuts roasted 
and properly prepared, laid down beside me. I was also 
indebted to him for always taking my part against any one 
who wished to injure me. I was nevertheless destined to be 
the dupe of his assiduities. 
On the 7th of July we repaired again to the house of 
the mansa, to take leave of him, but he was still absent. 
On our way home I said to Lamfia, perhaps imprudently, 
that the thief had also taken the razor with which he had 
shaved himself on the day before the festival. He replied in 
a very confident manner, that he considered this impossible, 
and that it was certainly in my sack. 
On our return to the hut, he begged me^ in the pre- 
sence of the Mandingo, to examine my baggage once more. 
After various useless searches, long discussions, and many 
goings and comings, the razor was at length found in the 
millet jar, where I am certain it had been that moment put, 
in the hope of persuading me that it had not been stolen but 
mislaid. Lamfia wished to restore it to me, but I would not 
take it, telling him that I wished to have at the same time, 
all the things I had lost. At this observation he ap- 
peared very much disconcerted. Two old men advised me 
to complain to the chief, if the thief did not immediately 
restore every thing he had taken. I seized the idea, and 
threatened to adopt it. He was alarmed, and requested me 
to wait a little. After a moment's reflexion he observed, that 
as I had been robbed under his roof, and as my person and 
property had been entrusted to his care by the chief of 
Cambaya, I was under his responsibility, and he there- 
fore considered himself bound to make good whatever I had 
lost. On this condition 1 promised silence ; but, finding that 
he was in no hurry to keep his word, and fearing to be plun- 
dered a third time, I followed the advice of several old men, 
who accompanied me to the chief of the district, to beg of 
him to give me a lodging, until an opportunity should occur 
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