TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
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sitting upright ; but he was so exhausted that to 
keep him on the horse, it was necessary to have 
him supported by a man on each side. Never 
did I witness (nor indeed did I think it possible 
that a human being could endure) such tortures 
as were inflicted on this man. When he first 
refused to go on, they had recourse to a mode 
of compulsion which I have been told is com- 
mon on those occasions, but of too disgusting a 
nature to be described. I did not see the old 
w^oman, nor could I ascertain, what had become 
of her. 
We moved forward at three o'clock on the 
morning of the 21st, and travelled east, through 
woods until half after seven, when we reached 
the foot of a high range of rocky mountains, 
running north and south, said by the Kaartans 
to be a continuance of those which break the 
course of the Senegal at Feloo, forming the falls 
of that name. Their western sides are steep, 
much broken, and very difficult of access ; and 
their tops where we crossed them, a flat table 
land thinly covered with stunted w^ood, and in 
many places forming a surface of solid flat rock, 
bearing a brown metallic polish, so smooth that 
the animals were constantly slipping. The He- 
scent on the eastern side was scarcely percepti- 
ble, and as we advanced, the soil began to bear a 
more fertile, and less rocky appearance. At half 
