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tioned labours. We as Englishmen should con- 
sider that the prejudices of ages cannot be era- 
dicated in an hour, nor the light of truth com- 
municated by instruction at the mere will of man. 
To benefit our fellow creatures, we must expend 
time, patience, money, resources and sedulous 
instruction, because we know that cupidity, 
bigotry, and revenge, and all the bad passions 
which spring from ignorance, are not to be de- 
stroyed by any other effectual means. Many 
incidents have been stated in the course of my 
narrative, which justify these remarks, exclusive 
of those more prominent instances which are to 
appear in the sequel. 
The principal difficulties which impeded my 
progress may be reduced to a few heads. The 
cupidity and duplicity of the chiefs, the exist- 
ence of slavery as connected with our endea- 
vours to abolish it, the idle fears and apprehen- 
sions growing out of recent hostile transactions 
in the Senegal, and, mainly, the rapid spread 
and dreadful influence of the Mahomedan faith. 
The duplicity of the chiefs is principally ex- 
emplified in the conduct of the kings of Woolli, 
Bondoo and Kaarta, and either in the want of 
inclination, or the fear of our approaching or 
passing Sego, by the king of that country. At 
Woolli perhaps they were of too trivial a nature, 
and the king so inadequate to prevent our pass- 
