TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
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to the necessity of selling one of their horses to 
procure subsistence. Ismena, too, had been ill 
some time 5 but Bakoro, who was well and might 
have gone on without him, had he felt the least 
inclination to do so, squandered both his time 
and money until the means of proceeding were 
completely exhausted. 
This second failure in the attainment of an 
object I had so much at heart, and the impossi- 
bility which presented itself of inducing any of 
the natives of the country to undertake such a 
voyage, had I even promised them the whole 
baggage of the expedition, added to my anxiety 
for the arrival of Mr. Partarrieau, had such an 
elFect on my spirits that I could with difSculty at 
times force myself to take the exercise necessa- 
ry for my health, which, in spite of all those 
annoyances and the effects of the late season, 
continued unimpaired. 
The month of March was spent in anxious 
suspense on these subjects, and in visiting the 
country about Boolibany, which is beautifully 
diversified by hill and dale thinly covered with 
wood. 
Almamy during this month received a hasty 
report from the north-east frontier that the Kar- 
tan army was within a day's march of the ca- 
pital, where the utmost confusion prevailed in 
consequence of the inhabitants from all the 
