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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
prehension that such might be his own fate in 
a few days. 
As it was necessary that the officer we in- 
tended sending to Sego should be accompanied 
by a guide and messenger from Almamy, I had, 
previous to leaving Boolibany on the 20th, ob- 
tained a promise from him that he would come 
to Samba Contaye in a few days, and bring with 
him a person fitted for that service. He did 
not, however, make his appearance until the 
Slst, when I was informed that he had arrived 
at Wooro Samba, a small village, or rather farm, 
belonging to one of his own relations, about a 
mile south of our camp. There I went to see 
him, when he immediately named a person to 
accompany Mr. Dochard * to Sego, and said 
that it would be my business to clothe and sub- 
sist him during the journey, which of course 
I made no difficulty in consenting to. 
On the following day, the guide came to our 
camp, and having said much about the unplea- 
santness of such a long journey, the dangers 
and privations to be encountered, &c., told me 
that he wished some stated reward to be held 
out to him on his return, in default of which he 
would not go. Although I was much astonished 
* In addition to its being his own wish to proceed on this 
service, he was the only officer then capable of so hazardous 
an undertaking. 
