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riley's narrative. 
he is tall and quite young ; liis palace is very 
large, square, and high, built of stone with a spe^ 
cies of cement. He was said to have a hundred 
and fifty wives, and ten thousand slaves ; he has 
also a very large army, which fight with guns, 
spears, bows and arrows. When he goes out, he 
rides on a huge beast, called Ilfement (elephant), 
and is attended by two hundred guards. The 
people are not Mooselmins, but addicted to va- 
rious Pagan superstitions ; for which reasons, 
though they are honest, hospitable, and kind- 
hearted, Sidi Hamet utters the pious wish, " that 
they may soon be driven out of this goodly 
" land." 
The following is so important, that we shall 
give it in the narrator's own words. 
" The inhabitants catch a great many fish ; 
" they have boats made of great trees, cut off and 
hollowed out, that will hold ten, fifteen, or 
" twenty negroes, and the brother of the king 
** told one of my Mooselmin companions who 
could understand him, (for I could not,) that 
" he was going to set out in a few days with sixty 
" boats, and to carry fiv^e hundred slaves down the 
river, first to the southward and then to the 
" westward, where they should come to the great 
water, and sell them to pale people, who came 
" there in great boats, and brought musquets and 
powder, and tobacco and blue cloth, and knives^. 
