TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 11

qiience of the difficulties of the path, and the

accidents among our animals. The general ap-

pearance of the country we travelled over was

extremely barren, and our course south-east. We found that the convalescents sent forward to

the Tingalinta with Mr. Nelson, were still in a

very weak state, and the scarcity of rice under

which we laboured, tended to keep them so. We were in hourly expectation, however, of a

supply from Kakundy. A little milk was all we

could procure at the village which takes its name from the river, and contains about 100 in-

habitants, principally slaves, belonging to Mr.

Pearce, who has allowed them to settle there for

the purpose of cultivation, and to keep up an

intercourse with Foota Jallon. The rice, to the amount often men's loads [ten cwts.], arrived on

the 8th, and eight of those men, natives of the

neighbourhood of Kakundy, were engaged to

carry loads to Laby.

On the morning of the 9th, Abdul Hamed

informed Captain Campbell it was Almamy's

orders, that a white man should be sent on in

advance to Teembo, to explain to him the object we had in view in entering his dominions, and

at the same time forbidding our nearer ap-

proach until he should be perfectly satisfied on

that subject. I took the opportunity of offering my services to go with an interpreter, to make