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to live 5 but, on their departure from Marsa*, they had not gone one hundred yards from the walls, when Sega was barbarously murdered by some of Abdoolghader's followers, and his body thrown, without further ceremony, into a ravine.

A prince, named Amadi Pate, was chosen (by the influence of Abdoolghader) to succeed the deceased, to whom he also was an inveterate enemy. This step was taken contrary to the wishes of a powerful party in Bondoo, under the command of Amadi Isata, a brother of the deceased, and caused a civil war, which terminated in the death of Pate, and the succession of Isata, who was assisted, during the struggle, by Samba Congole, a prince of Upper Kajaga or Galam. Amadi Isata's first step was to secure himself from the attacks of Abdoolghader, by attaching to his cause the Kartan king, to whom he agreed to pay a yearly tribute of a moulo t of gold, and who was himself anxious for an opportunity to revenge himself on Abdoolghader, who, on hearing of this act of Isata's, assembled part of his army, and marched towards the frontier of Bondoo, where he remained several days in anxious expectation of the arrival of the re-* The town of Bondoo where Abdoolghader had been so;-journing.

t A measure used in Africa for corn, and containing about two quarts.