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master in tire same determined manner, “ 1 lose it for speaking for 
the just rights of my country only.” Ben Sallah and others en- 
treated him to moderate his anger, or it might indeed be fatal to 
hi in. 1 also implored him to accede to the demands of the sultan, 
how unjust and tyrannic soever they might be, observing, that two 
debilitated white men stood no chance yi holding out against the 
united force of so many Fellatas, who only waited the command 
of their sovereign to assassinate them. After much entreaty, and 
not without considerable reluctance, my master desired that they 
should be given to them ; and said to the Gadado, on his leaving 
the hut, “ Tell your sovereign I never wish to see him again ; my 
business with him is now at an end.” A short time after Mallam 
Mudey returned with a message from the sultan, acquainting my 
master of his intention of writing to the king of England in ex- 
planation of his conduct. He desired Mallam Mudey to tell Bello 
that the king of England would not even look at a letter from him, 
after the treatment his subjects had received. 
I took an opportunity one day of acquainting my master of 
Paseoe’s villany, who immediately dismissed him, without paying 
his wages. The old man went to a native lawyer to obtain advice 
in what manner he was to act; but instead of holding out the 
hope of obtaining the sum due to him, the learned Eellata ex- 
pressed his astonishment that Abdullah had not cut off his head. 
Pascoe then turned snuff- merchant; but having given too extensive 
credit, soon became a bankrupt, and was finally obliged to cut wood 
from the adjoining country, and sell it in the market at Soccatoo, 
by which means he contrived to procure a precarious subsistence. 
One day the Gadado came and begged me to lend him my 
camel to go to the war against the sheik of Bornou : knowing it 
would be impolitic to refuse, 1 let him have it. The animal was re- 
turned to me, about six weeks after, in a most shameful state, reduced 
