TRAVELS IN AFRICA 
turning, I again waited on Bojar, and hinting 
my disbelief of his father having again broken 
his promise, said I would remain at Somantare, 
and send one of my men to Dhyaje, to receive 
the king's final orders, and requested Bojar to 
accommodate us with huts in the town until 
the return of my messenger, when, should Mo- 
diba only say he could not protect me farther 
than Kaarta, and not forcibly prevent my pro- 
ceeding, I would go alone, at my own risk. 
Bojar here got into a furious rage, asked me 
if I did not consider him as Modiba's son, or if 
I supposed he had less authority in Kaarta than 
his father ; and said, that although I appeared 
to doubt his having received orders to stop me, 
he would prove to me that neither fear of me, 
nor expectation from me, could induce him to 
lie ; and therefore informed me, that he could 
not admit of my remaining at Somantar^ after 
himself ; nor allow me to send one of my men 
to Dhyaje, where, he added, some of them had 
been too often already. What he meant by the 
last phrase I could not imagine, nor would he 
condescend to explain. I was therefore, however 
reluctantly, obliged to submit, and turn my back 
on the East, and the objects of my mission in 
that quarter, in the anxious, though unsuccess- 
ful pursuit of which I had spent so much time, 
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