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vised to the contrary. I replied, that such 
might have been the case, but I doubted it j 
and therefore desired Ali to tell his uncle, that 
I relied with confidence on his fulfilling the pro- 
mise made me by Garran, in his name, when he 
first saw me at Galam, and which alone could 
have induced me to come into his country. 
Giboodoo returned from the capital on the 
18th, and said that the Bangassi people were to 
leave it the following day, and that Modiba had 
appointed Bokari to accompany me as far as 
Badoogoo. This was all I wanted ; and al- 
though I had been much longer detained than 
I could have wished, I nevertheless forgot all 
my disappointments in the prospect of once 
more moving eastward. 
The Bangassi people did not arrive until the 
SOth, They were introduced to me by the ma- 
raboo, who said that Modiba, in handing me 
over to those people, desired him to state, that 
his reason for having detained me so long origin^ 
ated in nothing but'a wish to send me forward in 
safety, and which the preparations he had been 
making for the war, prevented his doing sooner, 
and begged me to believe that his most sincere 
good wishes followed me. 
It was my intention to have proceeded on the 
21st, but that being on a Saturday, which as well 
