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prince informed them, that his cavalry " were 
otherwise employed." On the ^4th, the army of 
the confederates returned without venturing to 
encounter Daisy, after plundering some of his 
villages. But, on the ^6th, the alarming intelli- 
gence arrived, that the king of Kaarta was on his 
march to Jarra, and had already taken Simbing, 
The inhabitants immediately prepared to eva- 
cuate the town, and the women continued all 
night beating corn, and packing up their most 
necessary articles. Next morning, the greater 
number departed from Bambarra, by the way of 
Deena, driving their sheep, cows, and goats, and 
carrying a small quantity of provisions and clothes. 
Lamentation resounded along the road ; the wo- 
men and children were crying ; the men were sul- 
len and dejected, and, as they travelled on, fre- 
quently paused to view their native city, and the 
wells and rocks to which all their plans of ambition 
and of happiness had been confined. The senti- 
nels soon after reported, that the confederate army 
had fled before Daisy, without firing a gun ; upon 
which the screams of the women and children re- 
doubled, the remaining inhabitants deserted the 
town, and Mr Park, dreading to be mistaken for a 
Moor in the confusion of victory, mounted his 
horse, took a bag of corn behind him, and joined 
the fugitives. At Queira he waited a few days 
for the arrival of some Mandingoes who were go- 
