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difficulties, and the more so as we heard here the un- 
pleasant tidings that the governor of Dal] a himself 
was near, and that most probably we should fall in 
with him. 
Meanwhile I was applied to by our host and a 
cousin of his, to decide a dispute between them as 
to the chieftainship of their village ; but, of course, 
I referred them to their own liege lord, and they 
started off to join him, near the village of Diina ; but 
their absence did not expose us to inhospitality, as 
we were very lavishly treated with numerous dishes 
of Indian corn, which, however, were rendered less 
palatable by the use of the dodowa-bosso, or the 
adulterated dodowa ; we also received a good supply 
of milk. I even bought a few fowls, though they 
were rather dear, selling for one hundred shells each, 
a price here reckoned equal to two darning-needles. 
Friday, There had been another heavy rain in the 
August 5th. a ft ern0 on of the preceding day, but, for- 
tunately, it had not been of sufficient duration to 
render the roads impassable. There was a great deal 
of indecision with my companion El Walati as to the 
route which we should pursue ; and while it almost 
seemed from our northerly direction as if up to this 
moment he had intended to take me to H6mbori, 
notwithstanding his former protestations against such 
a proceeding, he now pretended it was necessary that 
we should go to Diina, and we accordingly changed 
our course to the west, or rather W.S.W., steering 
about like a vessel with contrary winds. There 
