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mamy's idea 5 but he was much deceived, as I 
was determined that his conduct towards me 
should be clearly stated to those officers, in order 
to put them on their guard in their transactions 
with him. He arrived at a small village near our 
camp on the 11th, and on the following morning, 
I accompanied him to Guinion, a village of 
Bondoo, within about four miles of Conghell. 
During the ride, we had much conversation on 
the subject of the arrival of the French at Ga- 
1am, and, on a report which he said he had re- 
ceived by letter from Senegal, as to the inten- 
tions, not only of their expedition, but of mine, 
both of which had been stated to him to be fit- 
ted out for the purpose of affording assistance to 
his enemies the Kartans. I endeavoured to as- 
sure him that, although Europeans in general re- 
gretted to see so much warfare going on in 
Africa, it was, nevertheless, very immaterial to 
them whether the one or the other were vic- 
torious ; and, that the only object the king of 
England (for whom I could vouch) had in view, 
was the civilization of Africa, and the introduc- 
tion of commerce on a more extensive and libe- 
ral scale than at present existed. He, however, 
insinuated that he believed all Europeans to be 
more the friends of the pagan, than the Moslem 
inhabitants of Africa; in consequence of the 
more ready conversion of the former to Chris- 
