As I Was About To Depart, However, One Of The
Villagers (Who Probably Mistook Me For Some Moorish Shereef) Brought
Me Some As A Present, Only Desiring Me To Bestow My Blessing Upon
Him, Which I Did In Plain English, And He Received It With A
Thousand Acknowledgments.
Of this present I made my dinner, and it
was the third successive day that I had subsisted entirely upon raw
corn.
In the evening I arrived at a small village called Song, the surly
inhabitants of which would not receive me, nor so much as permit me
to enter the gate; but as lions were very numerous in this
neighbourhood, and I had frequently, in the course of the day,
observed the impression of their feet on the road, I resolved to
stay in the vicinity of the village. Having collected some grass
for my horse, I accordingly lay down under a tree by the gate.
About ten o'clock I heard the hollow roar of a lion at no great
distance, and attempted to open the gate, but the people from within
told me that no person must attempt to enter the gate without the
dooty's permission. I begged them to inform the dooty that a lion
was approaching the village, and I hoped he would allow me to come
within the gate. I waited for an answer to this message with great
anxiety, for the lion kept prowling round the village, and once
advanced so very near me that I heard him rustling among the grass,
and climbed the tree for safety.
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