92 • TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
but because the people would not allow us to 
approach the wells, alleging that it was their 
property, and we must pay for it as well as for 
the other commodities of life. Remonstrance, 
and an inclination to force on our part, together 
with the interference of our guides, at length 
obtained it 5 not, however, before it was much 
wanted. 
We left that inhospitable village at three, p. 
M., the same day, and travelled in the same di- 
rection over a very finely diversified country, 
for two hours, when we arrived at a small vil- 
lage called Kussaye, or Metofodia Cunda, hav- 
ing passed, about two miles before it, the ruins 
of a very large walled town, called Maja Cunda. 
This was formerly the residence of Modiba, the 
man who assisted us at WooUi, but was de- 
stroyed and abandoned by him, in consequence 
of the surrounding soil not producing good 
crops ; it is very light and sandy, and mixed 
with lumps of a stiff white clay, having much 
the appearance of pipe-clay. 
The occurrences at Madina, the hurry at 
leaving it, and the very great want of means of 
conveyance which we experienced, together with 
the confused state of the baggage in conse- 
quence of such want, and the indisposition of 
some of the men, induced us to determine on 
halting here for a day, in order to set all things 
