On The 5th Of January An Embassy Of Ten People Belonging To Almami
Abdulkader, King Of Foota-Torra, A Country
To the west of Bondou,
arrived at Teesee; and desiring Tiggity to call an assembly of the
inhabitants, announced publicly
Their king's determination to this
effect:- 'That unless all the people of Kasson would embrace the
Mohammedan religion, and evince their conversion by saying eleven
public prayers, he, the king of Foota-Torra, could not possibly
stand neuter in the present contest, but would certainly join his
arms to those of Kajaaga.' A message of this nature from so
powerful a prince could not fail to create great alarm; and the
inhabitants of Teesee, after a long consultation, agreed to conform
to his good pleasure, humiliating as it was to them. Accordingly,
one and all publicly offered up eleven prayers, which were
considered a sufficient testimony of their having renounced
paganism, and embraced the doctrines of the prophet.
It was time 8th of January before Demba Sego returned with my horse;
and being quite wearied out with the delay, I went immediately to
inform his father that I should set out for Kooniakary early the
next day. The old man made many frivolous objections, and at length
gave me to understand that I must not think of departing without
first paying him the same duties he was entitled to receive from all
travellers; besides which he expected, he said, some acknowledgment
for his kindness towards use. Accordingly, on the morning of the
9th, my friend Demba, with a number of people, came to me, and said
that they were sent by Tiggity Sego for my present, and wished to
see what goods I had appropriated for that purpose.
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