Ali, Therefore, Put Off
The Matter From Day To Day, But Withal Told Daman That If He Wished
To Purchase The Boy For Himself He Should Have Him Thereafter At The
Common Price Of A Slave, Which Daman Agreed To Pay For Him Whenever
Ali Should Send Him To Jarra.
The chief object of Ali, in this journey to Jarra, as I have already
related, was to procure money from such of the Kaartans as had taken
refuge in his country.
Some of these had solicited his protection
to avoid the horrors of war, but by far the greatest number of them
were dissatisfied men, who wished the ruin of their own sovereign.
These people no sooner heard that the Bambarra army had returned to
Sego without subduing Daisy, as was generally expected, than they
resolved to make a sudden attack themselves upon him before he could
recruit his forces, which were now known to be much diminished by a
bloody campaign, and in great want of provisions. With this view
they solicited the Moors to join them, and offered to hire of Ali
two hundred horsemen, which Ali, with the warmest professions of
friendship, agreed to furnish, upon condition that they should
previously supply him with four hundred head of cattle, two hundred
garments of blue cloth, and a considerable quantity of beads and
ornaments.
June 8. - In the afternoon Ali sent his chief slave to inform me that
he was about to return to Bubaker: but as he would only stay there
a few days to keep the approaching festival (Banna selee), and then
return to Jarra, I had permission to remain with Daman until his
return.
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