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portrait I have drawn of her will serve for her country- 
women. 
Some old men spoke to me of an Englishman, who after 
quitting" the colony of that nation at Sierra Leone, came to 
live at Timbo, married there, and had a son. He probably 
grew tired of this kind of life, and fled, leaving his family 
behind. After he was gone, his son turned Mahometan, and 
still lives in the environs of Timbo. 
They have also retained a recollection of the journey 
made by Watt and Winterbottom, to Timbo, in the disguise 
of Shereefs : their stratagem was soon discovered, they were 
detained fourteen days in this capital, and then compelled to 
return to Sierra Leone; the Poulas being unwilling to let 
them penetrate further eastward into the interior of the 
country. 
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