Time Had, Indeed, Reconciled Me In
Some Degree To Their Mode Of Life, And A Smoky Hut Or A Scanty
Supper gave me no great uneasiness; but I became at last wearied out
with a constant state of alarm and
Anxiety, and felt a painful
longing for the manifold blessings of civilised society.
April 19. - The long-wished-for day of our departure was at length
arrived; and the slatees, having taken the irons from their slaves,
assembled with them at the door of Karfa's house, where the bundles
were all tied up, and every one had his load assigned him. The
coffle, on its departure from Kamalia, consisted of twenty-seven
slaves for sale, the property of Karfa and four other slatees; but
we were afterwards joined by five at Maraboo and three at Bala -
making in all thirty-five slaves. The freemen were fourteen in
number, but most of them had one or two wives and some domestic
slaves; and the schoolmaster, who was now upon his return for
Woradoo, the place of his nativity, took with him eight of his
scholars, so that the number of free people and domestic slaves
amounted to thirty-eight, and the whole amount of the coffle was
seventy-three. Among the freemen were six jillikeas (singing men),
whose musical talents were frequently exerted either to divert our
fatigue or obtain us a welcome from strangers. When we departed
from Kamalia, we were followed for about half a mile by most of the
inhabitants of the town, some of them crying and others shaking
hands with their relations who were now about to leave them; and
when we had gained a piece of rising ground, from which we had a
view of Kamalia, all the people belonging to the coffle were ordered
to sit down in one place with their faces towards the west, and the
townspeople were desired to sit down in another place with their
faces towards Kamalia.
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