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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
to be a very small village, the occasional residence 
of that prince, who had then been there some 
weeks, and who detained Mr. Dochard under 
the pretence of not having received a sufficiently 
large present, until the 17th, on which day he 
again moved forward accompanied by one of 
Hawah Demba's men, sent to escort him into 
Foolidoo, about four miles from Mamier. He 
ascended some steep and rugged hills, from the 
top of which he had a fine view of the Senegal, 
distant about a mile to the north. On descend- 
ing into the valley, he travelled over a solid bed 
of rock for more than a mile, w^hen he reached 
an extensive plain lying along the banks of the 
river, by the side of which he travelled through 
villages and large corn-grounds, until he arrived 
at Savusuru, another town of Kasson. Here he 
met a division of Hawah Demba's army, going 
on a plundering excursion into some of the 
neighbouring states. It was his intention to 
leave Savusirie on the following day, but it rained 
so incessantly, and the innumerable brooks and 
rivers he had to cross were so swollen, that he 
could not move before the 21st, and even then 
he did so contrary to the advice of the natives, 
which proved to be well founded, as he had not 
travelled above four miles when he came to a 
stream called the Tangina, running into the 
Senegal, and so deep and rapid that to attempt 
