312 ROGUERY OF THE HOSPITABLE HOST OF KADE. 
ance of this luminary, the object of the wishes of the Mussul- 
men, put an end to all sarcasms ; but we were not the more 
tranquil on that account, for some Negroes came running into 
the hut, and related with alarm, that they had seen in the 
plantations a number of armed men, who were doubtless come 
to plunder the village. Our host immediately went to protect 
his children, who were out of doors, but he soon returned, 
and informed us, that these armed men who had been seen in 
the fields, were two blind men, abandoned by their guide, and 
who not being able to find their way, were wandering about 
at random. 
The fever which had for some days tormented Boukari, 
obliged me to remain the next day at Kadé, besides, the 
attentions of my host were a powerful motive for staying with 
him. Although he was very rich, and one of the principal 
inhabitants of the village, he himself went every day to 
purchase my provisions at some distance from his own house ; 
he seemed to have but one object, that of giving me pleasure ; 
but alas ! I was the dupe of appearances ; this benevolent 
Negro was a rogue ; I learned, that he had appropriated to 
himself the present which I had entrusted to him in order to 
pay the chief of Kadé for my passage in his canoe. After this 
discovery, I could not but doubt the fidelity of a man who 
had abused my confidence to such a degree ; I therefore quitted 
his house on the 6th of July, and arrived that day at Pinsory, 
situated on the west bank of the Rio Grande. 
