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In answer to these remonstrances on my part, 
he said that he would afford me every assistance 
I might require, both m removing my baggage 
and forming a new camp, if I did not wish to 
take up my quarters within the walls of the 
town, where I should be accommodated with a^ 
much room as I might want. 
This I decidedly objected to, from a conviction 
that I would find much difficulty in again get- 
ting oat of it, and was about making some fur- 
ther objections to the move he proposed, or ra- 
ther dictated, when he ordered me to leave him, 
and, in a very angry tone indeed, said he would 
take no excuse v/hatever, as if I did not imme- 
diately comply, he would force me to it. 
A refusal at that moment would have been 
highly imprudent as I was in his power, and 
w^hich he said he should exercise by keeping me 
where I was until I should write to my headman 
at Samba Contaye, and direct him to join me 
without delay with all the men and baggage. 
This I positively refused to do, but, as the only 
means left in my power of getting out of his 
hands, I promised to comply with his wishes of 
moving my camp, on condition that he should al- 
low me to return there immediately to make the 
necessary preparations. To this he made some 
objections, but finding I v/as determined not to 
comply on any other terms, he at length con- 
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