After a long day’s journey, in the course of which I observed a number of
large loose nodules of white granite, we arrived at Teesee on the evening
of December 29th, and were accommodated in Demba Sego’s hut. The next
morning he introduced me to his father, Tiggity Sego, brother to the king
of Kasson, chief of Teesee. The old man viewed me with great
earnestness, having never, he said, beheld but one white man before, whom
by his description I immediately knew to be Major Houghton.
In the afternoon one of his slaves eloped; and a general alarm being
given, every person that had a horse rode into the woods, in the hopes of
apprehending him, and Demba Sego begged the use of my horse for the same
purpose. I readily consented; and in about an hour they all returned
with the slave, who was severely flogged, and afterwards put in irons.
large loose nodules of white granite, we arrived at Teesee on the evening
of December 29th, and were accommodated in Demba Sego’s hut. The next
morning he introduced me to his father, Tiggity Sego, brother to the king
of Kasson, chief of Teesee. The old man viewed me with great
earnestness, having never, he said, beheld but one white man before, whom
by his description I immediately knew to be Major Houghton.
In the afternoon one of his slaves eloped; and a general alarm being
given, every person that had a horse rode into the woods, in the hopes of
apprehending him, and Demba Sego begged the use of my horse for the same
purpose. I readily consented; and in about an hour they all returned
with the slave, who was severely flogged, and afterwards put in irons.
