When I Had Succeeded
In Persuading My Landlord That This Opinion Was Without Foundation, And
That I Would Gladly Partake Of Any Victuals Which He Might Think Proper
To Send Me, He Ordered A Sheep To Be Killed, And Part Of It To Be Dressed
For My Supper.
About midnight, when the Moors had left me, he paid me a
visit, and with much earnestness desired me to write him a saphie.
"If a
Moor's saphie is good, (said this hospitable old man,) a white man's must
needs be better." I readily furnished him with one, possessed of all the
virtues I could concentrate; for it contained the Lord's Prayer. The pen
with which it was written was made of a reed; a little charcoal and
gum-water made very tolerable ink, and a thin board answered the purpose
of paper.
July 25th. Early in the morning, before the Moors were assembled, I
departed from Sansanding, and slept the ensuing night at a small town
called Sibili; from whence, on the day following, I reached Nyara, a
large town at some distance from the river, where I halted the 27th, to
have my clothes washed, and recruit my horse. The Dooty there has a very
commodious house, flat roofed, and two stories high. He showed me some
gunpowder of his own manufacturing, and pointed out as a great curiosity
a little brown monkey, that was tied to a stake by the door, telling me
that it came from a far distant country, called Kong.
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