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TRAVELS IN AFRICA 
the natural consequence of the comparative state 
of civilization to which they have attained. 
About forty years previous to the time we 
visited Bondoo, Abdoolghader, a Mahomedan 
priest, and chief of a tribe of Foolahs that had 
come from Massina, and settled in Toro (then 
ruled by the Dileankey family), made so many 
converts to this faith among the people of that 
country, and acquired such influence with them, 
that he succeeded in leading them to dethrone 
that family, and proclaim him king or almamy. 
At the time Karta was invaded by the Sego 
Bambarras, and its chiefs, and many of the in- 
habitants obliged to leave it for a short time, a 
large detachment of them, under the command 
of a prince, arrived at Galam, where they were 
well received, and whence they despatched mes- 
sengers to Abdoolghader to apprize him of their 
intention to put his hospitality to the test, but 
which they were prevented from doing by his 
assembling his army, and marching to attack 
them. They, having received early information 
of his intentions, left Galam, and, on their re- 
turn to Karta, destroyed some towns belong- 
ing to Gedumah, in revenge upon the inhabit- 
ants of that country for having refused to assist 
them against their Sego enemies. 
The chief of one of those towns, an Iman, of 
