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" Mary bucks" collected earth, and covered him 
entirely over. Buckar took up a quantity of the 
earth, and threw it into Jobson's lap } after which 
he rose, and stepping a little aside, dressed him- 
self in his best clothes. Then he and his atten- 
dants successively having taken up a bow and 
arrow, after making an appearance of shooting, 
came and laid them down before our traveller. 
The purport of all this ceremony was explained 
to be, that the king had made an entire cession 
to Jobson of Tenda, and all the territory around 
it* The understood price was a few bottles of 
his best brandy ; which Jobson paid, not without 
some reluctance, being much apprehensive that 
his new dominions would never yield him an 
equivalent even for the small purchase money. 
About this time their stay was enlivened by the 
arrival of the king of Jelicot (Jallacotta), with his 
" juddies and fiddlers." These juddies our author 
compares to the Irish rhymers. During the whole 
time of meat, they recite songs in praise of the 
king or his ancestors. After death they are not 
interred in the usual manner, but " put in a hol- 
" low tree upright." Here he heard of two places 
in the neighbourhood, Tomba-konda (Tamba- 
cunda of Park), and Jaye. Of these he imme- 
diately concluded the one to be Tombuctoo, and 
the other Gago, a country described by Leo as 
abounding with gold. Tombuctoo, at that era. 
