FOOTNOTES:
[23]Silsel: irons placed round the necks of refractory slaves.
[24]The band also sang some extempore verses on my joining them, of which the following is nearly a literal translation, and delighted their chief excessively.
Christian man he come,
Friend of us and sheikhobe;
White man, when he hear my song,
Fine new tobe give me.
Christian man all white,
And dollars white have he;
Kanourie like him come,