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CHAPTER VI. 
Description of Boolibany — Delays and Disappointments 
there — Scarcity of Provisions — Death of Private Pickard 
— My decision of passing the rains in the Country, and 
Departure for Samba Contaye to select a position for 
winter quarters — Arrival of the Expedition from Booli- 
bany — -Mr. Pilkington and men left there sick — Death 
of Lieutenant Burton, and Sickness of the Men — Prepa- 
rations for Mr. Dochard's Departure for Sego — Almamy's 
Arrival near our Camp — Difficulties about the Guide — 
Mr. Dochard's Departure — The Object of his Embassy — 
Mr. Partarrieau's Departure for the Coast — Mr. Nelson's 
weak state — A regular Market established — Mr. Pil- 
kington's Arrival from the Capital — Mr. Nelson's Death 
— My own Indisposition — Deaths amongst the Men — Ex- 
traordinary Ceremony at the killing of a lioness — Lions' 
Attack on the Horse — Accounts from Mr. Dochard — Re- 
turn of the Messengers — Almamy's unjust Conduct, and 
its Results. . 
Boolibany, the^ Capital of Bondoo, stands in 
an extensive plain at the foot of a range of 
rocky hills, which are distant from it about a 
quarter of a mile east : to the west, the dry 
bed of a considerable torrent winds along the 
plain, and, in the season of the rains, conducts 
the water, which descends in a thousand streams 
from the hills, to the Falune and Senegal. 
