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Foulahs, who^ apprized of their departure, had gone in force 
to oppose their junction with us, and easily made them 
prisoners. In this affair a few shots were fired: several 
French negroes were dangerously wounded, and one of them 
had his thigh broken : Donzon subsequently performed am- 
putation at Bakel. 
The news of this disaster soon reached us ; without loss 
of time M. Partarrieu repaired to the village where Major 
Gray was detained ; entreaties, presents, threats, nothing 
could prevail upon the Foulahs to release him ; and the 
joy we felt on being allowed to proceed at not too great 
distance from the river was embittered by grief at seeing the 
major conducted on horseback, under a strong escort, by a 
contrary route to ours. The Foulahs took him bwslj solely 
with a view to induce us to turn back and follow him ; but, 
conceiving that this proof of our attachment to the major 
would only have involved us in destruction, we took good 
care not to run into the snare which was laid for us, as, by 
so doing, we should in all probability have merely increased 
to no purpose the number of victims to an imprudence, 
which no solicitations could dissuade the major from com- 
mitting. 
We continued our route, still proceeding northward. After 
suffering at several places a repetition of the same torments, 
we reached Adgar, a village only a day's journey and a half 
distant from Bakel. Here M . Partarrieu halted and encamp- 
ed close to the place, as if he intended to make a long stay 
there : he then visited the chief, and talked to him of send- 
ing off his sick to Bakel, that he might afterwards proceed 
with more ease to Fouta-Toro ; but, perceiving that this 
plan displeased the village chief, he had recourse to a stra- 
tagem to gain liis consent : he told him that, not having 
animals enough to carry all his baggage, he should leave 
part of his goods with him. The chief, perceiving in this 
proposition the means of subsequently possessing himself 
