… be besieg’d by the aforesaid King of Dahomey’s Army. The People of Ardah, for some Time, made a stout Resistance, till … Cloaths and Necessaries, which I desir’d he would let his People bring for me, and he agreed to it; so that I dont find … their Wounds and Burns, &c. I could not chuse but labour under dismal Apprehensions, particularly the first Morning …