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From Sego they were sent, in company with a number of other captives, up the Niger in two large canoes, and offered for sale at Yamina, Bammakoo, and Kancaba; at which places the greater number of the captives were bartered for gold dust, and the remainder sent forward to Kankaree.
This struggle did a great deal of harm to the trade of Jenneh, for it interrupted intercourse with Yamina, Sansanding, Bamakou, and Boureh, which were the chief marts for its produce. The women of Jenneh would not be true to their sex if they did not show some marks of coquetry.
Here the country begins to rise into hills, and I could see the summits of high mountains to the westward. About noon I stopped at a small village near Yamina, where I purchased some corn, and dried my papers and clothes. The town of Yamina at a distance has a very fine appearance.
Indeed, both the horse and its rider were so completely covered with mud, that, in passing the village of Callimana, the people compared us to two dirty elephants. About noon I stopped at a small village near Yamina, where I purchased some corn, and dried my papers and clothes. The town of Yamina, at a distance, has a very fine appearance.
I heard my lady speak of it one day, when she cried because she feared to die and be laid there without ever again seeing her own country and her own people. Oh, and once I heard Yamina talk with another servant about an oasis called Bou-Saada. It was not near, yet I think it could be reached by diligence in a long day." "Good!" broke in Nevill. "There's our first real clue! Bou-Saada I know well.
Park's clothes were become very ragged, presented him with a garment and trousers, the usual dress of the country. Karfa's slaves were all prisoners of war, who had been taken by the Bambarran army. Some of them had been kept three years at Sego in irons, whence they were sent with other captives up the Niger to Yamina, Bammakoo and Kancaba, where they were sold for gold dust.
She told her mistress of me, and I was sent for, because I was quick and lively in my ways, and white of face, almost as white as the beautiful lady herself. My work was to wait on the mistress, and help my cousin, who was her maid. Yamina that was my cousin's name could have told you more about the place in the country than I, for she was even then a woman.
Fearing to have wounded him, he went on quickly: "And then, too, you are clever, so very clever." The baron looked at him with a wink so droll, that his little black eyelashes disappeared amid his yellow fat. "No," said he, "it is not I who am clever. It is Marie." "Marie?" "Yes, the baroness. Since her baptism she has given up her name of Yamina for that of Marie. She is a real sort of woman.
I passed in the course of this day the ruins of three towns, the inhabitants of which were all carried away by Daisy, King of Kaarta, on the same day that he took and plundered Yamina.
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