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named Mode-Duran, to remain with us, and 
prevent our being imposed on by the natives of 
the surrounding villages. 
Sergeant Tuft, being furnished with large 
presents for the king, and a host of chiefs, mi- 
nisters, and favourites, left us on the 5 th, to 
meet his majesty at Pappadarra, a village near 
Laby, where he was assembling his army, for 
the purpose, as was reported, of invading the 
Gaba country, on the southern bank of the 
Gambia. We were reduced since our arrival 
at the Panjetta, to a very small daily allowance 
of provisions, and from which there appeared 
no prospect of relief, at least as far as we could 
foresee ; a pint of rice between four men was 
our usual ration, and even that scanty pittance 
failed us on the evening of the 6th. 
In this state we could not have remained long j 
and although we w^ere daily enabled to purchase 
enough from the natives to keep body and soul 
together, yet our sufferings were great indeed. 
The health of the Europeans w^as rendered 
worse than it had been, in consequence of their 
eating unripe fruit, and even that they could 
not procure in sufficient quantities to satisfy 
their appetites. 
On the 7th, a chief named Omerhou Kano 
arrived at our camp, and having seated himself 
with all pomp imaginable under a tree at a short 
