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following him, he got up into a tree, and fired his newly-acquired 
gun at them, the report of which brought those in search of him 
to the place, when they brought him back, and pinioned him to the 
ground, and abused him very much. When Richard asked what 
the Fellatas were saying, he said they were cursing Richard for 
having him pinioned to the ground, but Richard would not have 
him let loose. On his arrival here, the Gadado asked me to for- 
give him : I told him that was impossible. They allow him to go 
at large, and he stops in the house of the Gadado’s master of the 
camels. When I saw him, he appeared as if nothing had been the 
matter. I forbad my servants holding any communication with 
him. 
F riday, 22d. — In the morning the Gadado sent for Allah Sirkie 
to tell me the sultan wished to see Richard my servant, as he had 
never seen another Christian besides myself ; and he also wished to 
see me, and I was to bring the sheik's letter, which he by no means 
wished to take from me, or to open; he only wished to see how 
we addressed him, and if it was in a tin case like his. I went after 
the mid-day prayers with the Gadado, taking with me my servant 
Richard, whom they all called Insurah Coramina, or the little 
Christian, and Allah Sirkie, to the sultan’s, where we found him 
sitting in an inner room, better dressed than usual, and Mohamed 
Ben Hadji Gumso and Sidi Sheik sitting on his left: the Gadado 
sat down on his right, I with my servants in front. After his ask- 
ing Richard and I how' we were, and a few other questions, he then 
said he had sent Ben Hadji Gumso and Sidi Sheik to me, to inform 
me that he had sent for my people and baggage. Before he had 
not informed me, but now he would tell me how matters stood. 
The king of England had sent me to him, but I wished to go to 
the Sheik of Bornou : that between him and the sheik there was 
war ; and therefore, though I had come from the king of England, 
