I
Determined To Avail Myself Of The First Opportunity Of Escaping, And
To Proceed Directly For Bambarra, As Soon As The Rains Had Set In
For A Few Days, So As To Afford Me The Certainty Of Finding Water In
The Woods.
Such was my situation when, on the evening of the 24th of June, I
was startled by the report
Of some muskets close to the town, and
inquiring the reason, was informed that the Jarra army had returned
from fighting Daisy, and that this firing was by way of rejoicing.
However, when the chief men of the town had assembled, and heard a
full detail of the expedition, they were by no means relieved from
their uneasiness on Daisy's account. The deceitful Moors having
drawn back from the confederacy, after being hired by the negroes,
greatly dispirited the insurgents, who, instead of finding Daisy
with a few friends concealed in the strong fortress of Gedingooma,
had found him at a town near Joka, in the open country, surrounded
by so numerous an army that every attempt to attack him was at once
given up; and the confederates only thought of enriching themselves
by the plunder of the small towns in the neighbourhood. They
accordingly fell upon one of Daisy's towns, and carried off the
whole of the inhabitants; but lest intelligence of this might reach
Daisy, and induce him to cut off their retreat, they returned
through the woods by night bringing with them the slaves and cattle
which they had captured.
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