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for the country of Kankan^ as I feared that I should be 
obliged to go to Timbo, to visit the almamy, and that I might 
there be discovered and arrested. It is true my skin had 
c became so swarthy, by exposure to the sun, that I might very 
easily have passed for a Moor ; I vras nevertheless not dis- 
posed to incur the risk. My guide was employed in his 
husbandry labours, which were likely to detain him a month 
or two, and I by no means wished to wait for him so long. I 
therefore resolved to take advantage of the first opportunity 
which might occur for crossing the country which separates 
Fouta-Dhialon from the Kankan. 
