[This ‘short account’ by James Irving II covers the period from June to October 1789. The handwriting is that of Captain James Irving.]

/90/ A very short account of what happened to me after the seperation on the 16th of June 1789.

It was already observed that as soon as we got to Muly Abdrauchman's, I and three others of the people were marched into the country. So it is sufficiant to say we were conducted to a place belonging to Muly Abdrauchman, about 5 miles from Gulimeme, where we were employed digging the ground (as it was too hard to plow) with things like pick axes, from sunrise till sunset, and nothing to eat but a little /91/ barley meal pottage about 10 o'Clock at night; and so little of that, that we frequently thought we were hungrier after we had eat it than before.

During our stay here, Muly Abdrauchman visited us, and I asked him to let me go (after we had done our day's work) to Gulimeme to see the Captain, but he told me I could not see him, as he was locked up in the Castle, but we would see him in two or three days.