TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
not very honourable) of those who trade with 
them. They profess an attachment to and claim 
relationship with the inhabitants of Senegal, and 
if hospitality can in any degree prove the sin- 
cerity of the former, it must be allowed they 
have such attachment, as the house of a Serra- 
wolli, and every thing it contains, is at all times 
at the service of the poorest inhabitant of that 
place. 
Their local situation and the advantages they 
derive from it, render them enemies to the peo- 
ple of Bondoo, who have nothing to do with the 
river except through the medium of their country; 
hence, the great exertions of the late Almamy 
Amady to subjugate the nation, and which he 
maybe said to have in some degree accomplished; 
for he, by one means or other, gained such au- 
thority amongst them, that of late years the ves- 
sels trading in the river were obliged to pay him 
a large present before they could pass Yafrey*. 
He also succeeded in sowing the seeds of discord 
between the chiefs of the upper and lower States, 
the latter of whom he contrived to attach to his 
own cause, or at least so much so that when Al- 
mamy attacked the former, the latter, although 
closely related, afforded them no assistance. 
Since the death of Almamy and the arrival of 
the French to settle at Galam, they appear to 
* A large town ten miles west of the Fa-lemme. 
