SAMORY'S CAREER. 76i ing that he had come to found a new kingdom of the faithful in West Africa. Adventurous followers gathered to his standard, tribes and cities accepted his rule. In 1880 he established himself on the Upper Niger,and two years later him. But however this may be,it took three campaigns to drive him back to the Niger. It was not till 1886 that he acknowledged he had met his match, consented to negotiate, and received Captain Tournier andLieutenantPeroz, BEHAHZIN, KING OF DAHOMEY.

he came in contact with the French advanced posts.

The French say that Samory was a slave trader on a great scale and a monster of cruelty, and that his conquests were made easy by the terror inspired by his barbarous treatment of those who fell into his hands after opposing the French envoys,at his campon the Tankisso River,a tributary of theNiger.

The reception of the French officers was a stately pageant, evidently carefully arranged with a view to impressing them with a flue idea of his power. A mile from thecamp the envoys were met by Samory's brother at the head of a