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TRAVELS IN AFRICA 
ticularly at Sego, was of this nature, has been 
already proved by Mr. Park, to whose appear- 
ance there the death of Mausong himself, and 
of other great personages immediately after his 
passage through, was industriously attributed by 
the Mahomedans. A second opportunity was 
afforded to their malice against us, and their 
hatred of our faith, upon the occasion of the 
subsequent death of some of Dha's chief men, 
particularly the governor of Bamakoo, who died 
suddenly a few days after Mr. Dochard's arrival 
at that town. 
The existence of slavery as connected with 
the endeavours of England to abolish it, tends 
in a material degree to awaken the jealousy of 
the native chiefs, who, in common with the 
Moorish and Negro traders, derived, and are 
still deriving, a very lucrative income from that 
abominable traffic, which they designate by the 
softened appellation of a lawful branch of com- 
merce. In order to give an adequate idea to 
my readers of the profits attending this trade in 
human flesh, it will be necessary for me to state 
a few particulars. 
I have already stated in page 326, that in order 
to save from the fate which I had good reason 
to know awaited my baggage at Moonia, I 
had released from slavery a Bondoo woman and 
