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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
same direction until we came to the river, along 
the north bank of which we continued our 
march through deserted and ruined towns until 
three p.m., when we reached Goosela, a small 
walled town of Gidumagh, at which we halted 
for the night. 
Goosela is one of a few Gidumagh towns 
which remain on the north bank of the Senegal, 
tributary to the Kaartans and Moors, and which 
makes itself very evident in the miserably 
wretched and poverty struck appearance of the 
inhabitants^ whose numbers do not exceed one 
hundred and fifty. It is situate on an elevated 
spot about 500 yards from the river. 
A march of two hours along the banks of the 
river brought us opposite Fort St. Joseph, on the 
morning of the 19th, at eight o'clock, when ca- 
noes having been provided by Samba Congole, 
we crossed without delay, and found our baggage 
safely deposited in a square mud building in his 
yard, where I was myself accommodated with 
quarters. 
My first object was to despatch a messenger 
to Modiba, requesting that one of his confidential 
servants might be sent without delay to conduct 
us into that country. One of Samba's brothers 
was selected for that service, and proceeded on 
the 1st of December with directions from Sam- 
ba to make as little delay as possible. 
