I Will Not, Therefore, Kill You In Cold Blood, But I Will
Retain You As My Slave, Until I Perceive
That your presence in your
own kingdom will be no longer dangerous to your neighbours, and then
I will consider
Of the proper way of disposing of you." Abdulkader
was accordingly retained, and worked as a slave for three months; at
the end of which period Damel listened to the solicitations of the
inhabitants of Foota-Torra, and restored to them their king.
Strange as this story may appear, I have no doubt of the truth of
it. It was told me at Malacotta by the negroes; it was afterwards
related to me by the Europeans on the Gambia, by some of the French
at Goree, and confirmed by nine slaves who were taken prisoners
along with Abdulkader by the watering-place in the woods and carried
in the same ship with me to the West Indies.
CHAPTER XXVI - MEETING WITH DR. LAIDLEY - RETURN TO THE COAST - VOYAGE
TO ENGLAND
On the 7th of May we departed from Malacotta, and having crossed the
Ba Lee (Honey River), a branch of the Senegal, we arrived in the
evening at a walled town called Bintingala, where we rested two
days. From thence, in one day more, we proceeded to Dindikoo, a
small town situated at the bottom of a high ridge of hills, from
which this district is named Konkodoo (the country of mountains).
These hills are very productive of gold. I was shown a small
quantity of this metal which had been lately collected:
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