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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
The sick, who were left at the Panjetta, 
joined us in safety, and, in order to avoid starva- 
tion at Kakundy, and to obtain that relief and 
rest of which we were all so much in want, we 
sailed immediately for Sierra Leone, where we 
did not arrive until our provisions were nearly 
exhausted, and then, with the loss of two men 
and nearly all our remaining animals. 
On landing at Free Town, his Excellency Sir 
Charles McCarthy omitted nothing that could 
tend in any way to relieve our wants and suffer- 
ings, and it is with particular satisfaction that I 
take this opportunity of offering my grateful ac- 
knowledgments for his marked kindness and at- 
tention to myself. 
Lieutenant Stokoe, on whom the command 
then devolved, as soon as he had recovered from 
the effects of his late illness and fatigues, al- 
though in the depth of the rainy season, set out 
by the Port Logo path, with the intention of 
going to Teembo, in order to enter into arrange- 
ments, if possible, with Almamy, and obtain from 
him hostages for the free and unmolested pas- 
sage of the expedition through his country to 
the Niger. In this, however, he failed, and re- 
turned to the colony, to wait until the ensuing 
dry season would admit of his endeavouring to 
penetrate by some other route j but he, like his 
