… 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 … to sacrifice me, with Drum beating a Sort of a dead March before me, and many Hundreds gather’d about me jumping …