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contempt. “ That,” says he, “ is a bad woman ; none of the sultans 
like her; she will not pay duty on any thing : but you shall go to- 
morrow.” I went home, determined never to be caught in such a 
foolish affair in future, as my last journey ought to have taught me 
never to make friends of the opposition party in any place, for they 
were always sure to lead to trouble, if not mischief. 
As the governor said I should go to-morrow, I took him at his 
word, and accordingly left Wawa the second time, determined that 
politics should never bring me back to the place again. We halted 
at a village of the Cambric, remained here an hour, then proceeded 
an hour, and halted at another, where the gentlemen seized a sheep, 
as they had done at the former place. I gave them a severe lecture, 
which they listened to very quietly, but killed the sheep, lighted a 
fire, and roasted it with the skin on, before the poor Cambrie its 
owner. In the evening I arrived at the ferry, where I had an ex- 
cellent house, and plenty of presents of sheep, eggs, and honey, 
sent to me and my friends : the carriers arriving at sunset with the 
baggage, and living at free quarters on the inhabitants, as they had 
done on the Cambrie. 
Being unwell, I remained at the ferry three days ; and on the 
10th, about noon, having got all my baggage over, I crossed the 
Quorra, which at this time was about a quarter of a mile in width, 
running at the rate of two miles an hour, and in the middle ten 
or twelve feet deep. The ferry is crossed by canoes of about 
twenty feet long and two broad. Cattle are occasionally made 
to swim over. 
The four rogues of slaves wanted to cheat me out of my horse, 
and urgently invited me to pass over first. I told them, when I 
saw the horses fairly over I would go, but not until then : at which 
they were evidently much disappointed ; and as it was, they suc- 
ceeded in cheating me out of one which the governor had lent me. 
The master of the house in which I lived in Comie, a very 
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