INTERVIEW WITH ALMAMY OF BONDOU. 131 
Our host quitted us at a little distance from Banai, highly 
discontented with the present I had made him. We directed 
our course northward, and were obliged to pass by Senopalé. 
Boukari's sister perceived us, and ran in great alarm to 
enquire the cause of our apprehension ; no sooner was she 
made acquainted with it than she hastened to Almaniy's 
brother, who accompanied us, and endeavoured to remove the 
odious suspicions entertained with respect to us. Boukari. 
affected by the efforts of his sister to defend him, gave her 
his ring as a pledge of his remembrance ; this interesting 
woman left us, after kindly shaking us by the hand. 
On reaching Canel, where we found Almaniy of 
Bondou, an old man of sixty, I went to pay him a visit, but 
had much difficulty to make my M^ay to his hut, on account of 
the great number of courtiers and soldiers who filled all the 
avenues. This king was lying on a bed ; he enquired after my 
health, asked whither I was going, and offered me his pro- 
tection and a passage through his dominions ; he then ordered 
a sheep-skin to bespread on the sand, and invited me to sit down 
upon it, questioned me concerning different persons at St. Louis 
with whomhe was connected, and at last dismissedme. I received 
hospitality from the village chief For some days past I had 
been so ill with a fever that I could not mount my horse, 
and was obliged to be lifted on. When leaving this village an 
innumerable crowd of young men followed, loading me with 
abuse; some even cried that I ought to be killed. These 
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