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recollection of their kindness to him had vanish- 
ed with our cession of that colony to the French, 
but that he had been determined to crown his 
ingratitude with treachery,, deceit, and even 
want of common hospitality to the expedition, 
which was unfortunately induced to prefer the 
road through his country for the reasons already 
mentioned in p. 61, and in consequence of the 
very apparently warm manner in which he ex- 
pressed himself grateful for the handsome pre- 
sents he had received from Sir Charles McCarthy 
when commanding at St. Louis. That every 
deference and respect for him as the king of 
Bondoo, and indeed in some cases rather more 
than enough, had been shewn him, is but 
too evident from the enormous sacrifices we 
made at the shrine of his insatiable avarice, 
with a view of conciliating his favour and pro- 
tection, and of convincing him that our object 
in going to the east was not only the mere solu- 
tion of a geographical question, but an endea- 
vour at the eventual improvement of the com- 
mercial and social interests of the countries we 
visited, by opening a safe and direct com- 
munication between them and our settlements, 
where I assured Almamy we should be most 
happy to see himself and subjects as constant 
visitors. What could have induced him to act as 
