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food consisted entirely of fish, which often failed 
through the mismanagement of their tackle ; yet 
they rejected all offered instructions as to the 
mode of better employing it. It appears from 
M. Dupuis, that this wretched spot, called El 
Gazie, is often the scene of a similar catastrophe. 
Traders, then, from all parts of the desert, and 
even from Morocco, hasten thither, in hopes of 
obtaining articles of value in return for trifles i 
from the ignorant plunderers. In this trade of a 
week, watches, muslins, silks, &c. are received 
for dates, coarse linens, and the few other articles 
which are of use in this wretched mode of life ; 
bank notes are often obtained for a mere trifle. 
Soon after their captivity the crew were strip- 
ped naked, and carried along with the Moors on 
a journey to the east. The captain, who seems 
to have lost all prudence, and to have indulged 
in the most furious marks of impotent resent- 
ment, was killed ; the rest seem to have been 
tolerably treated. In about forty-four days they 
came to the vicinity of Soudenny, a negro vil- 
lage, which seems situated on the northern fron- 
tier of Bambarra. Here, concealing themselves 
in the hills and bushes, they seized and made 
slaves of all the straggling individuals who fell 
in their way. The people of the village, how- 
ever, received notice of their haunts, and, com- 
ing out in a body of forty or fifty, surrounded 
