knowledge of letters, they are at once the vainest and proudest, and, perhaps, the most bigotted, ferocious, and intolerant of all the nations on the earth : combining in their character, the blind superstition of the Negro, with the savage cruelty and treachery of the Arab. It is probable that many of them had never beheld a white man, before my arrival at Benowm : but they had all been taught to regard the Christian name with inconceivable abhorrence, and to consider it nearly as lawful to murder a European, as it would be to kill a dog. The melancholy fate of Major Houghton, and the treatment I experienced during my confinement among them, will, I trust, serve as a warning to future travellers to avoid this inhospitable district.: The reader may probably have expected from me a more detailed and copious account of the manners, customs, superstitions and prejudicès, of this secluded and singular people ; but it must not be forgotten, that the wretchedness of my situation among them, afforded me but few opportunities of collecting information. Some particulars, however, might be added in this place ; but being equally applicable to the Negroes to the southward, they will appear in a subsequent page. CHAPTER XIII. Ali clepartsfor Jarra, and the Author allowed to follow him thither.— The Author s faithful Servant, Demba, seized by AH s Order, and sent back into Slavery.— Ali returns to his Camp, and permits the Author to remain at Jarra, who, thenceforward, meditates his Escape.— Daisy, King of Kaarta, approaching with his Army towards Jarra, the Inhabitants quit the Town, and the Author accompanies them in their Flight.— A Party of Moors overtake him at Qjueira.— He gets away from them at Daybreak: — is again pursued by another Party, and robbed ; but finally effects bis Escape. H a v i n g , as hath been related, obtained permission to accompany Ali to Jarra, I took leave of Queen Fatima, who with much grace and civility, returned me part of my apparel; and the evening before my departure, my horse, with the saddle and bridle, were sent me by Ali's order. Early on the morning of the s6th of May, I departed from the camp of Bubaker, accompanied by my two attendants, Johnson and Demba, and a number of Moors on horseback ; Ali, with about fifty horsemen, having gone privately from the camp during the night. We stopped about noon at Farani, and were Y
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