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the test, and (if decided in our favour) of proving 
to the people of that part of the country, that 
although we had been treated ill by Almamy 
Bondoo and this chief, their conduct had been 
contrary to their own laws, and as such dis- 
graceful only to themselves. I was in hopes 
also that a favourable decision in this case would 
lead to an investigation of Almamy Bondoo's 
treatment of us, and induce him, if he had any 
honor left, to evince it in making restitution for 
the losses we sustained in his country. 
1 I therefore delivered to the messengers a 
etter to those chiefs, in which I gave the infor- 
mation they required, and requested their im- 
mediate decision, and having made them a small 
present each, and appointed Charles Joe to ac- 
company them, they left us on the 19th of July. 
The month of August passed over without 
any remarkable occurrence, save the death of 
one of the European civilians (Hudson), who 
died of fever on the 14th. 
On the 12th of September, I paid a visit to 
the Tonca of Tuabo (the capital of Lower Ga- 
1am), and made him a small present. The river 
was then so swollen that its banks were no 
longer capable of containing its waters, which 
had completely overflowed all the low grounds 
in its vicinity, and destroyed a large proportion 
of the corn that was just then coming into ear. 
