ABSTRACT
FOUR days later the canoes began to assemble in the village in readiness for the expedition, and the chief king Konyan Bebe came also with his boats. My master announced that he would take me with him, but I asked to be left behind, and this would have happened if the king, Konyan Bebe, had not ordered otherwise. I let them see that I went unwillingly, left they should think that I intended to escape when they reached the enemy country, and that they might guard me less closely. But it had been my intention, if they left me at home, to run away to the French ship.
