I Had The Pleasure
At Length To Find Myself In A State Of Convalescence, Towards Which
The Benevolent And Simple Manners Of The Negroes, And The Perusal Of
Karfa's Little Volume, Greatly Contributed.
In the meantime many of the slatees who reside at Kamalia having
spent all their money, and become in
A great measure dependent upon
Karfa's hospitality, beheld me with an eye of envy, and invented
many ridiculous and trifling stories to lessen me in Karfa's esteem.
And in the beginning of December a Serawoolli slatee, with five
slaves, arrived from Sego; this man, too, spread a number of
malicious reports concerning me, but Karfa paid no attention to
them, and continued to show me the same kindness as formerly. As I
was one day conversing with the slaves which this slatee had
brought, one of them begged me to give him some victuals. I told
him I was a stranger, and had none to give. He replied, "I gave you
victuals when you were hungry. Have you forgot the man who brought
you milk at Karrankalla? But," added he with a sigh, "THE IRONS
WERE NOT THEN UPON MY LEGS!" I immediately recollected him, and
begged some ground nuts from Karfa to give him, as a return for his
former kindness.
In the beginning of December, Karfa proposed to complete his
purchase of slaves, and for this purpose collected all the debts
which were owing to him in his own country; and on the 19th, being
accompanied by three slatees, he departed for Kancaba, a large town
on the banks of the Niger and a great slave-market.
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