^14 TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
tion of a new well about fifteen feet deep, we 
completed in a few days ; during which his ma- 
jesty paid me some visits, and made us a present 
of a bullock, asking, however, in return, a piece of 
baft to make a dress which was double its value. 
We had not been long here when Alley Lowe, 
the man I had sent from Samba Contave with 
the dollars and other articles to Mr. Dochard, 
returned, not having been able to pass Kasson, 
where he was robbed, and from where he with dif- 
ficulty escaped with his life. Dheangina, the man 
who accompanied him, was taken ill with the 
Guinea worm at a very early part of their march, 
in which state he remained so long unable to 
move, that Alley Lowe endeavoured to prose- 
cute the journey alone, but in which he unfortu- 
nately failed. He had neither seen nor heard any 
thing of Bakoro or the man I sent with him ; I 
was therefore in hopes they had been able to 
pass ; but alas ! those hopes soon vanished, and 
I had the mortification of seeing them return 
in a short time equally unsuccessful. Their 
case however was not that of Alley Lowe, who 
would have got on if the possibility of his doing 
so had existed. 
They had idled so much of their time at the 
towns and villages they passed on the road, that 
their stock of articles for the purchase of provi- 
sions was soon exhausted, and they were reduced 
