The parents then redeem their son, by giving his master the value of a slave; but if they cannot afford it, the boy continues the slave of the schoolmaster, until he ransoms himself by his own industry.
On the 24th January, Karfa returned to Kamalia, with thirteen prime slaves, whom he had purchased.

He also brought a young girl for his fourth wife, whom he had married at Kancaba.

She was kindly received by her colleagues, who had swept and whitewashed one of the best huts for her accommodation.
On the day after his arrival, Karfa having observed that Mr.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.
Eleven of them confessed that they had been slaves from their birth, but the other two refused to give any account of themselves to Mr.
Park, whom they at first regarded with looks of horror, and repeatedly asked _if his countrymen were cannibals_.

They were very desirous to know what became of the slaves after they had crossed the salt water.