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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
could not get Bokari to move before the 4th of 
February, in consequence of one of two Moors 
who had gone in search of game for Samba, 
having been murdered by the party under Ha- 
w^ah Demba on the 25th of January. 
However, in order that no business of mine 
should delay me a moment after the return of 
Bokari, I made the presents to Samba and the 
chiefs of that part of Galam, which their atten- 
tion to me and their intercession with Modiba 
in my behalf deservedly merited. 
From the 10th of February, the day on which 
Bokari promised I should see him, to the 13th 
of March was spent by me in endeavours to in- 
duce a travelling merchant then at Fort St. Jo - 
seph, and about to proceed to Kaarta with a 
large caravan, to allow me to accompany him, 
to no effect. He said, he dare not bring a white 
man into that country without Modiba's per- 
mission. This, however, was not his motive for 
refusing ; he thought, and justly enough, that, 
after my arrival in that country, European 
goods, of which his venture chiefly consisted, 
would fall in value, from the quantity I must 
unavoidably give in presents and the purchase 
of provisions. 
On that day Samba, who had been absent 
from his town since the preceding night, came 
