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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
althougli not very high, added much to the rich- 
ness of the scene. 
On the evening of the 7th of October, Charles 
Joe returned from Foota, bringing with him the 
animals, and some of the articles belonging to 
the mission, which had been left at Fadgar, and 
gave the following account of his embassy* 
On his arrival at Chuloigne, the capital of 
Foota, he was obliged to wait until the election 
of an Almamy took place. This delayed him six 
weeks ; when Thieno Biram, a known friend 
to Europeans, was chosen, and a general assem- 
bly of the chiefs then present called, before whom 
the affair was brought, and, after much discus- 
sion, given against Bayla, who was declared to 
have committed a crime worthy death, but 
which, in this instance, should be mitigated into 
banishment from the country. Bayla endea- 
voured to excuse himself, by saying, that he was 
instigated to treat us as he had done by Almamy 
Bondoo ; whose letters to that effect he was go- 
ing to produce, when he was told by Almamy 
Foota, that, as he was not a subject of Bondoo, 
nor amenable, in any way, to the laws of that 
country, he was unw^arranted in carrying into 
effect the orders of its chief, who should have 
been ashamed of his conduct towards us. 
It was also decreed by the assembly, that every 
