TRAVELS IN AFRICA 
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in consequence of the war between Senegal and 
Foota and of some misunderstanding between 
Almamy Bondoo and the officer commanding 
at Baquelle ; and, to add to this difficulty, the 
Tonca of Tuabo> at the instigation of Almamy 
Bondoo, put a stop to the supplies from some of 
his towns, and seized a boat which had been 
employed purchasing corn from the people of 
the towns on the river side. As a pretext for 
such conduct he said that the whites^ his trihu^ 
tarieSy^ had not made him sufficiently frequent 
and handsome presents, or, in other words, had 
not fully satisfied his avarice. 
This man who was very old and much debili- 
tated in mental as well as bodily faculties, was 
controlled in all his actions by a relation of his 
own, who was one of those that first caused 
dissentions in the country, and sanctioned Al- 
mamy's views on it ^ which, in this instance, he 
was most effectually forwarding, by partly 
cutting off our supplies. In fact every means 
were resorted to by Almamy and his asso- 
ciates to oppose not only our further progress^ 
but the French works at Baquelle, where he was 
aware the existence of such an establishment 
would materially weaken his authority^ and 
eventually place that country in its former re- 
spectability. He had another reason for not 
favouring a permanent factory (at least on the 
