TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
would merit not only the approbation of the 
white king, but of all the surrounding chiefs of 
Africa. 
Having told Almamy that I wished him to 
send persons to receive the presents I intended 
giving him (which he promised to do without 
delay), we returned to the camp. Those persons 
did not however arrive till near midnight, when 
it was too late to begin such an affair, particu- 
larly as I had determined that not an article 
should be removed before I should be satisfied, 
by an agreement drawn up in Arabic and signed 
by Almamy, that the assistance and protection 
I might require, while in Bondoo and in the pro- 
secution of my journey, would be afforded. 
It was not till the 9th that I could arrange 
with them the amount of the presents and the 
form of agreement, when, the latter being sign- 
ed by Almamy and some of his chiefs, the for- 
mer were delivered*, together with a handsome 
double barrelled gun, which was sent by his Ex- 
cellency Sir Charles Mac Carthy as a pledge of 
his esteem for Almamy. 
With this paper in my possession, and the hi- 
therto apparent inclination of Almamy to com- 
ply with its contents, I conceived that nothing 
remained to prevent our departure, and there^ 
* For the form of agreement and amount of presents^ see 
Appendix, Articles G and 7- 
