TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
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obliged to hire men to carry that proportion of 
the baggage left behind, which was intended as 
a load for it. 
We left Coonting at four o'clock on the morn- 
ing of the SSth, and travelled east. Two of 
the horses were unable to rise from the ground 
this morning, and were left to their fate. At 
about a mile from Coonting, we entered a 
thicket composed of underwood and cane, which 
was so close that we were obliged to cut down 
the branches and some trees, for a considerable 
distance, in order to admit of the camels pass- 
ing with the loads. The face of the country 
begins to rise here considerably, and to be di- 
versified by hill and dale-— the former high and 
covered with wood, and the latter apparently 
very fertile. The soil, too, changed from light 
sand to a hard yellow clay, intermixed with 
small quartz pebbles. For about two miles the 
road led us over hilly and broken ground within 
a few yards of the river side. 
At mid-day we reached a small walled town, 
Kolicorri, but which had such a wretched ap- 
pearance that we were deterred from halting 
at it ; we therefore continued our march ese. 
about two miles further, when we arrived at 
Tandicunda, a very respectable town, defended 
by a strong stake fence interwoven w^ith thorny 
bushes, and wholly inhabited by Bushreens. Two 
more of the horses gave up during this march, 
