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Every eye was instantly averted; the sun of Major Denham's favour was set, and he was never again allowed to enter the palace. The bigotry of this court seems to have surpassed even the usual bitterness of the African tribes, and our traveller had to undergo a regular persecution, carried on especially by Malem Chadily, the leading fighi of the court.
The denouement of an English court-ship is frequently distinguished by an elopement; but although it was the last of Clapperton's thoughts to run away with such an unwieldy mass of human flesh, yet she very delicately proposed to him, that she would send for a malem, or man of learning, who should read the fetah to them, or, in other words, that no time whatever should be lost in endowing the widow Zuma with all claim, right, title, and privilege to be introduced at the court of Wawa, or any other court in Africa, or even at that time at the virtuous and formal court of queen Charlotte of England, as the spouse of Captain Clapperton, of the royal navy of Great Britain.
The major had been drawing with a lead pencil, when he was carried into the presence of the sultan. Malem Chadily on this occasion pretended to treat him with great complaisance. The courtiers were much astonished at seeing the effect produced by the pencils, and the ease with which their traces were effaced by india-rubber.
As Major Denham was showing to the admiring chiefs, the mode of writing with a pencil, and effacing it with Indian rubber; Malem wrote some words of the Koran with such force, that their traces could not be wholly removed. He then exclaimed with triumph, "They are the words of God delivered to his prophet. I defy you to erase them."
What is there extraordinary in a Christian's death? My old antagonist Malem Chadily replied, 'No. God has preserved him, let us not forsake him! Maramy returned to the tree, and said, 'His heart told him what to do. He awoke me, assisted me to mount, and we moved on as before." In this fatal conflict forty-five of the Arabs, besides their chief, fell.
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