TRAVELS IN AFRICA 
princes having an army at a short distance watch- 
ing our movements. An account was brought us 
in the afternoon by one of our own men (who 
had been at the village and overheard some con- 
versation ), that it was the intention of the men in 
this posse, headed by our guides, to attack us 
during the night. Improbable as it appeared, I 
placed triple centinels, andkept on foot myself the 
whole night, which we passed very quietly, and, 
at half after six the following morning, moved 
forward to the north. We had not proceeded, how- 
ever, above three miles, when a tornado came on 
so rapidly and violently from the ese. that we had 
scarcely time to secure the baggage by covering 
it with green leafy boughs of trees. It conti- 
nued raining nearly an hour and a half, when, 
having cleared a little, we resumed our march 
to the west of north for two hours ; this brought 
us to a small miserable village called Gari-Eli, 
where we halted for the night. Dohonoe was so 
ill when we moved in the morning that he was 
unable to sit upright. I was therefore obliged 
to leave him in care of the chief of Gwina, 
with means of subsistence, and directions, in 
case of recovery, to send him to Baquelle. 
We had not been long at our bivouac, when 
another nephew of Almamy's, named Amady 
Samba, made his appearance, and said he was 
s^nt by his uncle to enforce compliance with his 
