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Johnson, to convey them to the Gambia. Here 
he left his supernumerary clothes with Daman 
Jumma, the slatee, and here he was plundered of 
his sextant, which accident terminated his obser- 
vations of latitude, and caused the parallels of his 
remaining geographical stations to be left undeter- 
mined. From Jarra he departed on the 27th of Feb- 
ruary, and advanced through a sandy country, by 
Troomgoomba and Quiza, to Deena, a large town 
built of stone and clay, where the Moors were more 
numerous in proportion to the negroes than at Jar- 
ra. From Deena he proceeded to Sampaka and 
Dalli, at a village near which he was seized, on the 
7th, by a party of Moors, who were ordered by Ali 
to convey him to Benowm, as his favourite wife 
Fatima was desirous of seeing the Christian. On 
March ISth they arrived at Benowm, which exhi- 
bited a great number of tents scattered irregularly 
over a large extent of ground, and divided by herds 
of camels, cattle, and goats. Here he remained 
till the 30th of April, and was treated with the ut- 
most insolence and brutality by the Moors, who 
shut him up in a hut in which a wild hog was tied, 
which the boys constantly irritated by beating, 
while the men and women regularly assembled to 
tease the Christian. Their curiosity was almost 
as disagreeable as their insolence, as they examin- 
ed his clothes, searched his pockets, wondered at 
the whiteness of his skin, counted his toes and 
