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very accommodating and attentive ; but no en- 
treaties could induce him to go on. I believe 
he was afraid that if we got him into one of the 
towns in Bondoo, he would be detained until our 
camel should be returned. In this he was de- 
ceived ; for although such a step had been talked 
of by the officers as likely to have a good effect, 
we never had the least intention of doing so. I 
therefore dismissed him with a present of twen- 
ty-two bars. 
We here discharged Corporal Harrop, a na- 
tive of WooUi, who had been sold as a slave, 
when very young, and liberated by some of the 
British cruizers on the coast. He met his mo- 
ther at Medina, and expressed a wish to remain 
there, a refusal to comply with which we were 
aware would be useless, as he had it in his 
power to desert, and thereby deprive us of the 
opportunity, which was thus offered, of acting 
in a manner likely to convince the people of 
that part of the interior, that our intentions to- 
wards them were liberal and humane. The man 
himself seemed very thankful, and said he would 
never forget the English, to whose settlements 
on the Gambia he would return, in order to lay 
out the money we had then given him as pay 
and allowance up to that date. He took a cor- 
dial farewel of all his companions, and returned 
to Medina with the guide, to glad the heart of 
