In
This Manner We Proceeded Until We Came Within A Hundred Yards Of The
Gate, When The Singing Men Began A Loud Song, Well Calculated To
Flatter The Vanity Of The Inhabitants, By Extolling Their Known
Hospitality To Strangers And Their Particular Friendship For The
Mandingoes.
When we entered the town we proceeded to the bentang,
where the people gathered round us to hear our
Dentegi (history);
this was related publicly by two of the singing men - they enumerated
every little circumstance which had happened to the coffle,
beginning with the events of the present day and relating everything
in a backward series until they reached Kamalia. When this history
was ended, the master of the town gave them a small present, and all
the people of the coffle, both free and enslaved, were invited by
some person or other and accommodated with lodging and provisions
for the night.
CHAPTER XXV - THE JALLONKA WILDERNESS; A WARLIKE TALE
We continued at Kinytakooro until noon of the 22nd of April, when we
removed to a village about seven miles to the westward, the
inhabitants of which, being apprehensive of hostilities from the
Foulahs of Fooladoo, were at this time employed in constructing
small temporary huts among the rocks, on the side of a high hill
close to the village. The situation was almost impregnable, being
everywhere surrounded with high precipices, except on the eastern
side, where the natives had left a pathway sufficient to allow one
person at a time to ascend.
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