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TRAVELS AFRICA. 
cess which takes place as often as the growth 
of the weeds renders it necessary, and which, 
in this country, where vegetation is so rapidly 
going on during the rains, grow apace. 
We left Ganado at seven o'clock on the 
morning of the S4th, passed two small villages, 
situated in an open and well cultivated country, 
and reached Goodeerie at noon, having met an 
immense host of black monkeys, who, on our ap- 
proach, set up a hideous barking noise, and 
scampered into the woods. Some of them were 
as large as a mastiff dog. 
Goodeerie is a small straggling village, inhabit- 
ed by Surra woollies and Foulahs. Masiri Cabba, 
who is chief of it, accommodated us with a suffi- 
cient number of huts to shelter both the men 
and baggage from rain, which was fast approach- 
ing. As I feared it was likely we should have 
to remain a few days here, in order to the ar- 
rangement of matters with Almamy, I cheer- 
fully accepted his offer, and now, for the first 
time since our leaving Kayaye, we entered and 
took up quarters inside a town. 
I was here informed that Almamy was not at 
the capital when Mr. Dochard went there, and 
that it was probable he might have to wait there 
some time before he could see him, as he was 
absent on some business connected with the 
war between him and the people of Galam. 
