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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
yaye, came to say that a messenger had just ar- 
rived from Almamy, to direct that we should 
not advance further into his country, until we 
had sent a person to him. As we conceived 
this to be all a plan between Masiri Cabba and 
Lamina, for we saw them talking together a few 
minutes before, we paid no attention to it, and 
moved on, at half after six, to the south of east, 
over a fine open country, much cultivated, and 
more diversified by hill and dale than we had 
before met with : we reached a large straggling 
village, Jumjoury, situate on a rising ground, 
without any defence whatever. There appeared 
to be large quantities of cotton grown here, and 
the plantations looked in fine order. The chief 
here made us a present of a goat and some cous 
cous, in return for which he received double 
their value : indeed, taking those presents is a 
bad plan, but it would be wrong to insult those 
people, and they would certainly regard a refusal 
of any thing offered by them, only in such a 
point of view. We purchased here two fine 
sheep, five goats, and some corn. 
Having left Jumjoury at six, on the morning 
of the l6th, and travelled east over a fine, open, 
and, for the most part, well cultivated country, 
to Deedey, a small village, which we passed, 
and arrived at Loonchea, lying ese. from the 
former. The camels travelled badly this day ; 
