This I Considered As A Very
Fortunate Circumstance; For I Had Laid It Down As A Rule To Make
Myself As Useless And Insignificant As Possible, As The Only Means
Of Recovering My Liberty.
March 18.
- Four Moors arrived from Jarra with Johnson my
interpreter, having seized him before he had received any intimation
of my confinement, and bringing with them a bundle of clothes that I
had left at Daman Jumma's house, for my use in case I should return
by the way of Jarra. Johnson was led into Ali's tent and examined;
the bundle was opened, and I was sent for to explain the use of the
different articles. I was happy, however, to find that Johnson had
committed my papers to the charge of one of Daman's wives. When I
had satisfied Ali's curiosity respecting the different articles of
apparel the bundle was again tied up, and put into a large cow-skin
bag that stood in a corner of the tent. The same evening Ali sent
three of his people to inform me that there were many thieves in the
neighbourhood, and that to prevent the rest of my things from being
stolen it was necessary to convey them all into his tent. My
clothes, instruments, and everything that belonged to me, were
accordingly carried away; and though the heat and dust made clean
linen very necessary and refreshing, I could not procure a single
shirt out of the small stock I had brought along with me.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 103 of 167
Words from 28340 to 28590
of 45803
