TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
S99 
It providentially did not reach us, and we had 
only to complain of a restless night, and much 
anxiety, to say nothing of our labour in clearing 
the ground around our bivouac. 
Four o'clock on the morning of the ^2d 
again found us moving to ene. At seven we 
passed the KoUe-m-bimee, or black creek, nearly 
dry and running south ; it joins the Senegal a 
little above Feloo. Our path then changed to 
due east, and over a swampy soil through an 
immense forest of lofty ron-trees'*', which con- 
tinued all the way to Kirrijou, the first town of 
Kasson, where we arrived at half after ten. 
Garran here left us, and gave us into the care 
of Bojar (Modiba's eldest son), at whose town 
his father wished us to remain during our halt 
in that country, and whither I should have pro- 
ceeded the following morning, but the men and 
animals were so much fatigued, that I found it 
necessary to give them a day's rest. 
Kirrijou is beautifully situated on an emi- 
nence overlooking an extensive plain bounded 
by forests of ron-trees, and covered with the 
most luxuriant verdure nearly all the year round, 
except when inundated, which is the case 
yearly for four months, from July to October. 
Large quantities of corn, rice, ground-nuts 
* Of the palm kind. 
