Daisy Immediately Prepared To Revenge This Insult; But The Jowers, And
Indeed Almost All The Negro Inhabitants Of Ludamar, Deserted Their Towns,
And Fled To The Eastward; And The Rainy Season Put An End To The War Of
Kaarta, Which Had Enriched A Few Individuals, But Destroyed The Happiness
Of Thousands.
Such was the state of affairs among the nations in the neighbourhood of
Jarra, soon after the period of my arrival there.
I shall now proceed,
after giving some description of that place, with the detail of events as
they occurred.
CHAPTER IX.
_Some account of Jarra, and the Moorish inhabitants. - The Author applies
for and obtains permission from Ali, the Moorish chief or sovereign of
Ludamar, to pass through his territories. - Departs from Jarra, and
arrives at Deena. - Ill treated by the Moors. - Proceeds to Sampaka. - Finds
a Negro who makes gunpowder. - Continues his journey to Samee, where he is
seized by some Moors, who are sent for that purpose by Ali. - Is conveyed
a prisoner to the Moorish camp at Benowm, on the borders of the Great
Desert._
The town of Jarra is of considerable extent; the houses are built of clay
and stone intermixed; the clay answering the purpose of mortar. It is
situated in the Moorish kingdom of Ludamar; but the major part of the
inhabitants are Negroes, from the borders of the southern states, who
prefer a precarious protection under the Moors - which they purchase by a
tribute - rather than continue exposed to their predatory hostilities.
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