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ARRIVAL AT PA MPI. 
Poulas, whose astonishment at my appearance was unbounded ; 
one woman declared that I must doubtless live at the bottom 
of the earth, " for," added she, " I have never seen men of 
such a strange colour as that ;" and finishing with a 
cry of horror, she covered her face with her cotton garment 
and ran into her hut. Among the Poulas, however, I often 
met with men almost as white as myself. At this village one 
was presented me as belonging to my race. His features and 
complexion were really similar to ours ; and from an attentive 
examination, I was convinced that he was not an Albino. 
February 11 th. My departure was for a long time delayed 
by a great number of women, who by turns steeped the bit 
of my horse in water, which they made their children drink 
in order to remove their coughs. We passed through several 
small villages before we arrived atPampi, the residence of one 
of the sons of the Bourb-Joloffs ; but as his character excited 
some apprehensions in my mind, instead of entering the 
village, I began to make a circuit with my guides, for the 
purpose of avoiding it. 
We had not proceeded a hundred paces, before a troop 
of men came after me with a message that the prince wished 
to see me : all the reasons that I alleged to elude this visit, 
were of no avail with these envoys. Having therefore left 
my ass and my merchandize in the road, I reluctantly returned 
towards Pampi, accompanied by my Marabout. The prince 
expressed great satisfaction at my compliance ; desired me to 
