WAR WITH THE NEGReES^ 
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to the price \^ hich is given for negroes. This reduced the ransom 
to about 7^000 livres in actual value, without reckoning the 
private loss of the general, who was robbed of his money, jew^ 
els, and clothes, which ^^ ere estimated at 6',000 livres ; besides 
which he was kept for twelve days in close captivity, without 
being allowed to speak to any one. Since this period, Darnel 
has never failed to insist on a very considerable duty every year, 
as the price of his good-will towards our nation. The king, 
however, did not escape with impunity on account of the out- 
rage ; for M. Brue on his liberation formed a coalition with the 
neighbouring sovereigns of Brack, Siratick, Burba-yolof, Bur- 
sin, and Bur-salum, and watched the coasts of Darnel so closely, 
that no foreign vessels could approach them. He likewise seized 
and destroyed all the fishing-boats that came out, burned several 
villages, and obliged many others to supply Goree with all the 
wood which it required. 
This war lasted eight months, and the states of Dam el suf- 
fered by it severely, but still no reconciliation took place ; and 
a plan was laid for seizing the negro king, and sending him as a 
slave to the West Indies; but at this crisis M. Brue was recalled 
to France, to give his advice on the deranged affairs of the Afri- 
can company. A négociation was afterwards entered into with 
M. Lemaitre, who submitted to the most humiliating terms, 
and undertook to pay annually to the king of Cayor 100 bars 
of iron for permission to get w ood and water from his territory, 
and to purchase provision. This duty has successively increased, 
and it IS now very high, so that it would be dangerous, if not 
impossible, to suppress it. 
What I am now about to say relative to the Moors, and the 
customs in the kingdom of Cayor, will apply to all the other states 
on this coast, the difference between each being too trivial to 
merit distinction. I shall therefore confine myself chiefly to to- 
pographical details. 
The kingdom of Baol, which is the first after Cayor, begins 
at the village of Litde Brigny, and ends at the river of Serena : 
it is seven leagues from Goree, and has only about twelve leagues 
of coast from north to south. The king bears the name of 
Tin. 
The kingdom of Sin, whose sovereign takes the name of Buj-, 
is still smaller; as it has only eleven leagues of coast in the same 
direction. 
The same title of Bur belongs to the king of Salum^ whose 
dominions begin at the river of Palmera, and end at two or 
three leagues from the point of Barra. They run inwards as 
far as where the Gambia separates into two branches, the 
northern of which takes tlie name of the river of Salum. This 
