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to live J but, on their departure from Marsa*, 
they had not gone one hundred yards from the 
walls, when Sega was barbarously murdered by 
some of Abdoolghader's followers, and his body 
thrown, without further ceremony, into a ravine. 
A prince, named Amadi Pate, was chosen 
(by the influence of Abdoolghader) to succeed 
the deceased, to whom he also was an inveterate 
enemy. This step was taken contrary to the 
wishes of a powerful party in Bondoo, under 
the command of Amadi Isata, a brother of the 
deceased, and caused a civil war, which termi- 
nated in the death of Pate, and the succession 
of Isata, who was assisted, during the struggle, 
by Samba Congole, a prince of Upper Kajaga or 
Galam. Amadi Isata's first step was to secure 
himself from the attacks of Abdoolghader, by 
attaching to his cause the Kartan king, to whom 
he agreed to pay a yearly tribute of a moulo t 
of gold, and who was himself anxigus for an op- 
portunity to revenge himself on Abdoolghader, 
who, on hearing of this act of Isata's, assembled 
part of his army, and marched towards the fron- 
tier of Bondoo, where he remained several days 
in anxious expectation of the arrival of the re^ 
* The town of Bondoo, where Abdoolghader had been so- 
journing. 
t A measure used in Africa for corn, and containing about 
two quarts. 
