The King's Nephew Thought This A Proper Time To Have A
Peep Into A Tin Box Of Mine That Stood In The Fore Part Of The
Canoe; And In Stretching Out His Band For It, He Unfortunately
Destroyed The Equilibrium, And Overset The Canoe.
Luckily we were
not far advanced, and got back to the shore without much difficulty;
from whence, after wringing the water from our clothes, we took a
fresh departure, and were soon afterwards safely landed in Kasson.
CHAPTER VI - TIGGITY SEGO'S PALAVER
We no sooner found ourselves safe in Kasson than Demba Sego told me
that we were now in his uncle's dominions, and he hoped I would
consider, being now out of danger, the obligation I owed to him, and
make him a suitable return for the trouble he had taken on my
account by a handsome present. This, as he knew how much had been
pilfered from me at Joag, was rather an unexpected proposition, and
I began to fear that I had not much improved my condition by
crossing the water; but as it would have been folly to complain I
made no observation upon his conduct, and gave him seven bars of
amber and some tobacco, with which he seemed to be content.
After a long day's journey, in the course of which I observed a
number of large loose nodules of white granite, we arrived at Teesee
on the evening of December 29th, and were accommodated in Demba
Sego's hut. The next morning he introduced me to his father,
Tiggity Sego, brother to the king of Kasson, chief of Teesee.
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