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,