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136 RETURN TO CANEL. 
approaching Canel they sakited Almamy of Bondou with a 
volley of musketry. For my part, I kept at a considerable 
distance ; being- particularly afraid of the foot soldiers, who 
are the very dregs of the people. When we arrived in the 
village, we went to our former host ; he would cheerfully 
have accommodated me and my Marabout, but refused to 
admit the Toucolors, who repaid his refusal with the most 
abusive language. As I would not abandon my fellow tra- 
vellers, we were obliged to return to the public place: we 
there saw the chief of the village assigning quarters to all the 
soldiers ; he had not time to answer us, but two of Almamy's 
aid-de-camps who were with me, desired him to provide us 
with lodgings ; he immediately ordered an inhabitant of the 
village to receive us into his house, and the latter obeyed. 
We formed a party of six ; although exhausted by illness, 
and a medicine composed of salt and milk, which had been 
given me by a Negro, I had still spirits sufficient to keep up 
a conversation. I therefore consulted the Marabouts of Canel 
respecting the position of the two rivers which I had seen. 
They informed me, that the source of the Guiloum, a river 
which runs northward, and discharges itself into the Senegal 
at Beldialo, is in the village of Ouanondé, a day's march to 
the north of Banai. 
At a little distance eastward of Canel, runs the Guiloulou ; 
a small river, the source of which is a day's journey to the 
north, in a village of the same name ; it falls into the Gui- 
