TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Partarrieau had removed from Looboogol to a 
village about four miles from where we then were* 
Having procured a guide we moved on at a 
smart pace, and soon arrived in front of the vil- 
lage, where were assembled a number of armed 
men apparently waiting our arrival j for on our 
approaching them, they desired us to keep off, 
and would have proceeded to force had not our 
guide told them our intentions were good. 
One of the villagers, apparently a chief, then 
came forward, and, offering me his hand, invited 
me to the shade of a tree, where we were no 
sooner arrived than surrounded by a crowd of 
armed men, who without further ceremony at- 
tempted to tear the clothes off my men's backs, 
and their arms out of their hands. This sort of 
treatment was too rough to be borne with sang 
froid. My men, eleven in number, therefore 
made some resistance, and removed in a body 
to a short distance from where I was stand- 
ing, but had scarcely moved when the war- 
cry was set up by the Foolahs, and a fire of mus- 
quetry opened by them on my men, whose arms 
were almost useless from the rain of the preced- 
ing night, and consequently they were unable to 
make the resistance they might otherwise have 
done. Three of them were already wounded, as 
were three of the Foolahs, when Thierno Bayla ar- 
rived from the village and offering me his hand 
