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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
fore the ensuing week, I again despatched him 
to tell the king that unless they joined me before 
the S3d, I should move on before them to the 
frontier. 
On the SOth, the maraboo, accompanied by 
Bokari, one of the head slaves, and some of their 
followers, came to Missira, by Modiba's orders, 
to take us to Moonia, and whither, in case I re- 
fused to proceed with them, they had orders to 
force me. Here then was what I had long ex- 
pected, namely, to be plundered of every thing, 
and which I told them they could do at Missira, 
and not harass me as well as my men by travell- 
ing all over the country. 
The maraboo, as on a former occasion, said 
he was nothing more than the bearer of Modiba's 
orders, which he should carry into execution. 
Remonstrance was vain, and refusal would have 
been equally so (if not worse), as I plainly saw 
those people were prepared to act forcibly. Gi- 
boodoo arrived in the afternoon, and was accom- 
panied by two more of the head slaves, sent by 
their master on the same errand as the former. 
I had however rendered their interference un- 
necessary, having consented to proceed to Moo- 
nia, with the almost certainty of being plundered, 
and, under such a conviction, I laid out a part 
of the few articles the rapacity of the Kaartans 
had spared me, in redeeming from slavery two 
women of Bondoo, who had been taken in the 
