LAST MISSION TO AFRICA. 115 
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Observed mer. alt, Suo - 168 26 0 
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31 
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19 
31 
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14 
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July 27tli. — The morning being rainy, we did not depart 
from Bangassi till about nine o'clock. Left here M'Inelli. 
Paid the Dooty ten bars of amber to purchase provision 
for him and give him lodging. Shortly after leaving the 
town, three of the soldiers laid down under a tree, and 
refused to proceed ; their names Frair, Thomson, and 
Hercules. About a quarter of a mile farther, James Trott, 
one of the carpenters brought from Portsmouth, refused to 
go on, being sick of the fever. I drove on his ass, and 
desired him ta return to Bangassi. Found myself very 
sick and faint, having to drive my horse loaded with rice, 
and an ass with the pit saws. Came to an eminence, from 
which I had a view of some very distant mountains to the 
East half South. The certainty that the Niger washes the 
Southern base of these mountains made me forget my 
fever ; and I thought of nothing all the way but how to 
climb over their blue summits. 
