TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
obliged to hire some more carriers ; a most 
troublesome mode of transport, for it required 
a good look-out to prevent those fellows from 
running away with their loads. We left Gon- 
gally at four in the afternoon, and arrived at 
Dachadoonga, after a very fatiguing march of 
three hours and a half, over a much broken coun- 
try covered with wood. The chief of this town, 
which is a small one, is married to one of Alma- 
my's daughters. 
The few remaining horses, and the camels, 
were become so weak as to be unable to carry, 
and we had not yet been able to purchase a suf- 
ficient number of asses for the whole of the 
baggage ; I therefore sent Mr. Burton forward 
to Goodeerie, on the 20th, with as much of it as 
all the asses would carry, and directed him to 
send them back next morning to bring forward 
the remainder, but from some mistake of their 
guides, or from having straggled too much, they 
took different paths, which led them all (with 
the exception of two or three) much out of their 
way, and it was not until eight o'clock in the 
afternoon of the 21st, after despatching La- 
mina to conduct them into the right path, that 
the asses returned. Having purchased three 
very good asses here, we left it at seven o'clock 
on the morning of the 22d, and arrived at Ga- 
nado, another small village, at eleven. Messrs. 
