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any one who is disposed comes and eats ; each person, before tasting, 
repeating this pious ejaculation, “ God send him safe to heaven !” 
The goat’s flesh and tuah sent to me were soon consumed. 
30th. — Having finished cleaning the muskets and pistols, asked 
the chief permission to leave Wowow. The old man, smiling, told 
me not half my business was done ; he wanted six charms, which I 
alone could write. These charms were to be worn on his person, 
and to possess the following virtues : 1st charm. If his enemies 
thought of making war on him, it woidd cause them to forget to 
put it in practice. 2d. If they should be on their way to his city, 
for the purpose of warring, it would turn them back. 3d. If they 
should discharge their arrows at his people, when close to the city 
walls, it would cause them to rebound in their own faces, and wound 
them. 4th. It was the province of this charm to prevent his guns 
from bursting. 5th, was to preserve the person who might hold 
the gun from receiving any injury, should it unfortunately ex- 
plode. The 6th and last charm was to make him the happiest and 
most successful of men. 
31st. — Carried the charms to the king, on which I had written 
scraps of old English ballads, which made him in the best humour 
in the world. 
September 1st, — The king still wished to detain me longer, and 
insisted on my selling or giving him my gun and pistols, the only 
arms I had left. I endeavoured to soften him by every means in 
my power ; but finding him firm in his determination of having 
the gun, and at least one of the pistols, and knowing resistance 
would be ridiculous, 1 sent them to him, leaving it entirely to his 
generosity to give what he thought proper. The liberal-minded 
chief shortly afterwards returned 4,000 cowries (worth little more 
than a dollar), as a sufficient remuneration for the gun and pistol, 
but made me a present the next day of a beautiful little mare. 
3d. — Early in the morning the old chief desired to see me before 
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