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sented to him the more than probability of this 
poor creature's falling a victim to the hardships 
she must necessarily undergo before she could 
reach Kaarta. Those savages only ridiculed my 
compassion, and asked me if I was gratified in 
seeing the people of Bondoo thus punished. My 
reply in the negative only excited their laugh- 
ter, and drew a remark from Garran, That 
people so sensible to the sufferings of their ene- 
mies could not be good warriors." Alas ! what 
an error, and what consequent scenes of distress 
and misery ! ! 
We leftMaghem-Yaghere at six on the morning 
of the 10th, passed a small village called Gakoro, 
close to the river, at half after six, and arrived 
at the ruins of N-gany-n-gore at noon. This had 
been a considerable town, and was destroyed 
about two years before by the very people who 
were now escorting us. Having halted during 
the heat of the day under some large shady 
trees, that had formerly afforded a cool and 
pleasing retreat from the scorching rays of the 
sun to the inhabitants of the town, and now to 
us, and the destroyers of their peace, we 
moved forward at half after four in the after- 
noon, and continued to do so until eight, when 
we halted for the night at the ruins of another 
Gidumagh town, called Soman Keete. The 
first part of this day's march lay through corn 
