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Soulimaiia, to the village of Time, where he arrived on the 
3rd of August. He had till then accompanied a cara- 
van of Mandingo merchants, travelling on foot. In this 
village, he was detained by sickness for five whole 
months, and attacked by a scorbutic affection, which for 
a long time endangered his life, and which was induced 
by the intemperance of the climate and by the violent 
fatigue he had undergone in traversing the steep moun- 
tains of Fouta-Dhialon. This great chain appears to be 
composed of several stages, and full of torrents and preci- 
pices. In this interesting portion of his route, he care- 
fully collected intelligence of the situation of Bamakou, 
and of its intercourse with the Senegambia, which, it is 
hoped, will not prove unprofitable. 
At Time commenced another journey northwards ; 
this is the second part of the travels. M. Caillie wished 
to return to the Dhioliba; he set out on the 9th of 
January, 1829, and after having seen or passed through 
more than a hundred villages, and acquainted himself 
pretty accurately with the situation of Sego, he again saw 
the river on the 10th of March, at Galia, flowing from 
the west, and crossed an arm of it to repair to Djenn^. 
All this part is entirely new, as well as the route from the 
environs of Timbo to Time. 
The third part of the travels is on the great river; 
M. Caillie embarked on it on the 23 rd of March, after a 
residence of thirteen days at Jenne. He ascended it in a 
large boat, forming part of a flotilla of merchant vessels. 
