TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
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quence of the difficulties of the path, and the 
accidents among our animals. The general ap- 
pearance of the country we travelled over was 
extremely barren, and our course south-east. 
We found that the convalescents sent forward to 
the Tingalinta with Mr. Nelson, were still in a 
very weak state, and the scarcity of rice under 
which we laboured, tended to keep them so. 
We were in hourly expectation, however, of a 
supply from Kakundy. A little milk was all we 
could procure at the village which takes its 
name from the river, and contains about 100 in- 
habitants, principally slaves, belonging to Mr. 
Pearce, who has allowed them to settle there for 
the purpose of cultivation, and to keep up an 
intercourse with Foota Jallon. The rice, to the 
amount of ten men's loads [ten cwts.], arrived on 
the 8th, and eight of those men, natives of the 
neighbourhood of Kakundy, were engaged to 
carry loads to Laby. 
On the morning of the 9th, Abdul Hamed 
informed Captain Campbell it was Almamy's 
orders, that a white man should be sent on in 
advance to Teembo, to explain to him the object 
we had in view in entering his dominions, and 
at the same time forbidding our nearer ap- 
proach until he should be perfectly satisfied on 
that subject. I took the opportunity of offering 
my services to go with an interpreter, to make 
