TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
£57 
fever and dysentery, and more than half the 
native soldiers, as I have already observed, were 
partially crippled by the Guinea-worm, which 
had visited Mr. Partarrieaii so severely, that he 
was confined to his bed for some weeks. 
The chiefs of Foota having been made ac- 
quainted with the manner in which we had been 
treated by Bayla (who had neither consulted 
with them on that occasion, nor divided with 
them what he had received and plundered from 
us), and supposing that such was the cause of 
our not pursuing the road through their country 
to the coast, and consequently of their not re- 
ceiving large presents, &c., were actuated by a 
feeling of jealousy, which led them to request 
we would give to their messengers (who arrived 
at Baquelle on the 8th of July) a detailed ac- 
count of his conduct towards us, and the losses 
we had sustained in consequence, all which, 
they promised, should be laid before the tribu- 
nals of the country, and judged impartially. 
Although I felt convinced that these chiefs 
were only acting from an impulse of self-interest, 
which they knew would, in some degree, be gra- 
tified by the presents, which their apparent 
efforts to render me satisfaction for the inju- 
ries received at the hands of one of them, 
would draw from me, I nevertheless thought 
it a fit opportunity of putting their justice to 
