moore's travels. 
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paid the sum demanded. However, having re- 
turned some time after with a well armed ship, 
and induced several of the principal people to 
come on board, he threw them into irons, and 
kept them until full restitution had been made. 
They candidly acknowledged, on this occasion, 
that they were justly served and continued 
their intercourse with him on the same cordial 
footing as before. 
From Nackway, Moore proceeded up the river 
to Fatatenda, the highest point at which the Com- 
pany have ever established any factory. The 
Gambia was here about the breadth of the Thames 
at London Bridge, and being in October, the end 
of the rainy season, it ran with a deep and rapid 
stream. The factory was situated on a high rock 
close to the river, and commanded a pleasant 
prospect over great part of the kingdom of Can- 
tore. The plain round it, however, echoed con- 
tinually with the roaring of wild beasts. Hamil- 
ton, the factor, was here entirely by himself, and 
had not seen a white man for two months. He 
was frequently favoured with the visits of the 
king of Tomany, who seems to have been a com- 
plete counterpart of his Barsallic majesty. Every 
thing in the shape of brandy was invariably seiz- 
ed, and the factor, when he obtained any for his 
own use, had no resource but to bury it in the 
