TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
considerable respectability in the country, called 
on Abdoolghader, at his camp in Bondoo (where 
he made some stay, with a part of his army, 
after the retreat of the Kartans), and preferred 
a complaint against Sega, the reigning chief of 
Bondoo, for having assisted the Kartans in the 
destruction of his town, and carried off his wife 
and daughter, both of whom he added to the list 
of his concubines, and for having destroyed his 
religious books, written by himself, and said to 
be so voluminous as to be a sufficient load for 
an ass. He expatiated on the enormity of these 
crimes, and called on Abdoolghader, in the 
name of God and their prophet, to obtain for 
him the satisfaction to which he conceived him- 
self so justly entitled. 
Abdoolghader being himself a Mahomedan 
prelate of the first rank, and anxious to give 
every proof of his attachment to his religion, 
immediately summoned Sega to appear before 
the laws of Mahomet. This prince, whether 
from being too well aware of Abdoolghader's 
power to force his compliance, or from being 
badly advised by some who wanted to compass 
his fall, made his immediate appearance before 
the angry monarch, who, without hearing half 
what Sega had to say in his defence, judged the 
affair against him, and sentenced him to be ba- 
nished to Toro, where he was to be taught how 
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