When I Had Reached The
Summit I Sat Down, And Having A Full View Of The Town And The
Neighbouring
Country, could not help lamenting the situation of the
poor inhabitants, who were thronging after me, driving their sheep,
cows,
Goats, &c., and carrying a scanty portion of provisions and a
few clothes. There was a great noise and crying everywhere upon the
road, for many aged people and children were unable to walk, and
these, with the sick, were obliged to be carried, otherwise they
must have been left to certain destruction.
About five o'clock we arrived at a small farm belonging to the Jarra
people, called Kadeeja; and here I found Daman and Johnson employed
in filling large bags of corn, to be carried upon bullocks, to serve
as provisions for Daman's family on the road.
June 28. - At daybreak we departed from Kadeeja, and having passed
Troongoomba without stopping, arrived in the afternoon at Queira. I
remained here two days, in order to recruit my horse, which the
Moors had reduced to a perfect Rosinante, and to wait for the
arrival of some Mandingo negroes, who were going for Bambarra in the
course of a few days.
On the afternoon of the 1st of July, as I was tending my horse in
the fields, Ali's chief slave and four Moors arrived at Queira, and
took up their lodging at the dooty's house. My interpreter,
Johnson, who suspected the nature of this visit, sent two boys to
overhear their conversation, from which he learnt that they were
sent to convey me back to Bubaker.
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