TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 3

person employed, whose name was Lamina, was

a native of Sego, and promised to return with

the king's answer in three months.

Captain Campbell went to Sierra Leone in

March, 1816, for the purpose of acquiring in-

formation respecting the path through Foota

Jallon, and on his return so strongly urged Ma-

jor Peddie to enter the country for the interior

from the Rio Nunez, that he decided on doing

so, and fixed the middle of November for their

departure from Senegal. The interim was em-

ployed in collecting information respecting the

countries through which we were to travel, and

selecting from the regiment serving on the coast,

a detachment of non-commissioned officers and men fitted to the peculiarity of such a service,

and purchasing animals for the transport of the

baggage.

All these preparations being completed, we embarked on board four vessels, hired for the

purpose, and sailed from Senegal on the 17th of

November, I8I6.

The expedition was then composed of Ma-

jor Peddie, Captain Campbell, Mr. Adolphus Kummer, a German, as naturalist, Mr. Partar-

rieau, a native of Senegal (possessing consider-

able knowledge of the Arabic and Moorish

languages, with some of the native African

tongues), and myself, having with us a party of

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