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preference to his elder brother, whose mother was a Soo
Soo, while his own was a Moor. While the Prince was
at Timbuctoo, his grand-father being far advanced in
life, resigned his throne to his son, an uncle of the
Prince. The family were all Mahometans.
When the Prince was nineteen years of age, Dr. Cox,
an American citizen, and surgeon on board a ship which
arrived at Sierra Leone, having gone on a hunting expe¬
dition into the interior, and lost himself in the woods,
found, on his return to the coast, that his vessel had
sailed. He then undertook an excursion into the coun¬
try, and arrived at length, sick and lame, in the territory
of Foota Jallo. Being the first white man seen in that
country, he was carried as a great curiosity to the king,
Abduhl's father, at Teembo. The King entertained him
for six months with the greatest hospitality; and during
this time he was an inmate ofthe Prince's house, adjoin¬
ing that of his father. When the Doctor was perlectly
restored to health, he was dismissed by the King, and
furnished with clothes, gold, ivory, and an escort of
armed men to protect him to Sierra Leone. In the inte¬
rim his ship had providentially returned, and the Doctor
arrived safely in America. Would the Christians in the
Southern part of the United States do the same to an
Ethiopian or Indian ?
The Prince (Abduhl Rnhhahman) a colonel in his fa¬
ther's cavalry, was sent with a party of seventeen hundred
men to retaliate upon the Hebohs—who had very much
annoyed the trade of the people of Foota Jallo with the sea
coast. On the return ofthe Prince after a successful cam¬
paign, he was taken prisoner by the Hebohs, who surprised
him and his party by ambush. He was sold to the Man-
dingoes; and they in turn sold him to a slave ship at the
mouth of the Gambia; thence he was carried to Dominique;
and thence to Natchez, where he was sold to Colonel Pos¬
ter. About sixteen or eighteen years after this transaction,
as the Prince was selling sweet potatoes in Washington, a
neighboring town, he met the Doctor Cox who had been
his old acquaintance in Africa, and an inmate of his dwel¬
ling at Teembo: and who immediately recognized him.
The Doctor, in the fulness of his gratitude to the Prince,
went to Col. Poster, and offered him one thousand dollars
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