“ thousands who fell in the woods. I will not therefore kill “ you in cold blood, but I will retain you as my slave, until I “ perceive that your presence in your own kingdom will be no “ longer dangerous to your neighbours ; and then I will con- |3 sider of the proper way of disposing of you." Abdulkader was accordingly retained; and worked as a slave, for three months; at the end of which period, Darnel listened to the solicitations of the inhabitants of Foota Torra, and restored to them their king. Strange as this story may appear, I have no doubt of the truth of i t ; it was told me at Malacotta by the Negroes; it was afterwards related to me by the Europeans on the Gambia ; by some of the French at Goree ; and confirmed by nine slaves, who were taken prisoners along with Abdulkader, by the watering place in the woods, and carried in the same ship with me to the West Indies. CHAPTER XXVI. • The Caravan proceeds to Konkadoo, and crosses the Faleme ' River.— I t s Arrival at’ Bdriiserile, Kirwani, and Tambacunda. — Incidents on the Road.— A matrimonial Case.— Specimen of tie Shea Tree.— The Caravan proceeds through many Towns and Villages, and arrives at length on the Banks o f the Gambia, —passes' through Medina,’ the Capital 'of Woolli, and finally ’stops at Jindey.— The Author, accompanied by Karfa, proceeds to Pisania.— Various ¡Occurrences previous to his Departure from Africa— takes his Passage in an American Ship.— Short Account of his Voyage to Great Britain by the Way of the West Indies. O n the 7th of May, we departed from Malacotta, and having crossed the Ba lee, “ Honey river," a branch of the Senegal, we arrived in the evening at a walled town called Bintingala; where we rested two days. From thence, in one day more, we proceeded to Dindikoo, a small town situated at the bottom o f a high ridge of hills, from which this district is named Konkodoo, “ the country of mountains.” These hills are very productive of gold. I was shewn a small quantity of this metal, Which had been lately collected: the grains were about the usual size, but much flatter than those of Manding, and were Y y
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