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TRAVELS |N ^AFRICA. 
On my recovery, I employed myself in learn- 
ing the Foolah language, and making frequent 
excursions to the adjacent towns, as the wea- 
ther, which was then not quite so wet, permitted. 
Our supply of provisions, such as they were, 
continued abundant ; and having completed a 
strong fence round the camp, we were, in some 
degree, defended both from the encroachments 
of the wild beasts, which nightly serenaded us, 
and the not less troublesome daily visits of the 
inhabitants of the town ; whom, previous to the 
fence being made, we found impossible to keep 
out of our huts, and from which, on their de- 
parture, some one thing or other was always 
missing. 
The fever and dysentery still continued to do 
their work of destruction. Private Watzer died 
on the 19th ; Fallen on the 22d ; and Corporal 
Howell on the 25th of August, and many more 
vere fast declining. To divert, as much as pos- 
sible, the minds of the men from reflecting on 
the scenes of death around them, I had recourse 
to amusements and employments of all kinds. 
Hunting the game in which the country abound- 
ed, afforded an ample range for those, who w^ere 
able to partake of it, to employ their time to 
advantage. Wild hogs, antelopes, guinea fowls, 
and partridges, were constantly brought in. Du- 
ring one of our excursions we met, and sue- 
