About Eleven O'clock, To Our Great Joy And Surprise, The Freeman And
Slaves Who Had Parted From The Coffle The Preceding Night Entered
The Town.
One of the slaves, it seems, had hurt his foot, and the
night being very dark they soon lost sight of the coffle.
The
freeman, as soon as he found himself alone with the slaves was aware
of his own danger, and insisted on putting them in irons. The
slaves were at first rather unwilling to submit, but when he
threatened to stab them one by one with his spear, they made no
farther resistance; and he remained with them among the bushes until
morning, when he let them out of irons, and came to the town in
hopes of hearing which route the coffle had taken. The information
that we received concerning the Jallonkas who intended to rob the
coffle was this day confirmed, and we were forced to remain here
until the afternoon of the 30th, when Karfa hired a number of people
to protect us, and we proceeded to a village called Tinkingtang.
Departing from this village on the day following, we crossed a high
ridge of mountains to the west of the Black River, and travelled
over a rough stony country until sunset, when we arrived at
Lingicotta, a small village in the district of Woradoo. Here we
shook out the last handful of meal from our dry provision-bags, this
being the second day, since we crossed the Black River, that we had
travelled from morning until night without tasting one morsel of
food.
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