PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE. 
be of twelve or fifteen tons burden. This canoe was not going 
to Timbuctoo, but merely to convey us to another vessel of 
larger size, which was waiting in the river ; for at this season 
the branch was not navigable by large boats. The cargo of 
our canoe consisted of various kinds of provisions, twenty 
slaves, women, and children, the stoutest of whom were in 
chains. On the shore there was a crowd of people waiting to 
see us start a 
liND OF VOL. i» 
LONDON; 
rRlNTKD BY G. SCHULZE, 13, POLAND STFlECT. 
