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instigation of our guides, seemed inclined to 
oppose his following the caravan. I immediately 
selected one sergeant and fifteen men, and had 
proceeded about a quarter of a mile towards the 
village, when I met the guides and Amady Sam- 
ba, (and, in a few minutes after, Mr. Partarrieau,) 
who informed me that many objections were 
made to his joining me, in accomplishing which 
he had nearly come to blows with the guides and 
villagers. 
Shortly after this, a large bullock which had 
been bought at Gari-Eli, and conducted since it 
left that place by a Fool ah hired for the purpose^ 
having nearly killed one of our men, was order- 
ed to be shot, which was not effected until many 
shots had been fired at him. This circumstance 
so trivial in itself was nearly the cause of very 
serious consequences, as the men of the villages 
in the vicinity of our road heard the shots, and, 
knowing that we had nearly fought with our 
guides in the morning, thought that such was 
then actually the case, and came running up from 
all quarters ready for action, — which they were 
with difficulty prevented from commencing by 
the intercession of Macca. Many of them, how- 
ever, accompanied us to Dindoody, where we 
arrived at noon, having travelled ten miles nne. 
Although the day was excessively hot, and 
both men and animals were much in want of wa- 
ter, we were obliged to endure the privation, hav- 
