98 TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
practices, rushed on my mind, as we surveyed 
the silent and awfui remains of some human 
bodies which lay outside the walls of this once 
respectable and no doubt happy town, the in- 
habitants of which were torn by unrelenting 
savages from that native spot, so dear to all 
mankind. Even the strongest ties of nature 
riven asunder, and all this to gratify the brutal 
desires of some neighbouring tyrant, or to enrich 
a set of savages, who are daily exposed to a 
similar fate themselves, at least as long as they 
can find people ready to purchase their unna- 
tural booty. 
Mr. Partarrieau not having come up, we left 
Muntobe at six o'clock on the morning of the 
11th, and travelled slowly to the east until 
noon, when we reached Sansanding, a small 
town, the last of the kingdom of WooUi, beau- 
tifully situated on an eminence surrounded by 
high grounds, through the valleys of which winds 
a branch of the Gambia, now nearly dry j its 
banks are covered with cane, acacias, and mi- 
mosas, which afforded us an agreeable shelter 
from the intense heat of the sun. Here we de- 
cided on halting one day, in order to rest the 
animals, particularly the camels, which were 
become very weak for the last two days, owing 
to an insufficiency, indeed a scarcity, of that spe- 
cies of food on which they are used to feed. One 
