146 DEPARTURE FROM CANEL WITH A NEW GUIDE. 
returned me many thanks, adding that he was very sorry he 
did not possess any thing worth offering me ; he then dismissed 
me and kept my Marabout with him. I was scarcely asleep 
before Boukari awoke me, and said, " Almamy of Bondou 
asks if you have nothing to give to his children." I knew 
not whether I was obliged to make presents to his majesty's 
offspring, but as I needed his consent to cross his dominions, 
I sent back by Boukari four grains of amber to be presented 
to the little princes. 
March 11th. At the moment of my departure, a great 
number of people came to obtain rewards from me ; for the 
same men who would have robbed me if Almamy had permitted 
them, boasted of having accelerated my departure ; I was 
obliged, in order to rid myself of them, to throw some glass 
beads among them. 
We stopped dm-ing the heat of the day at Santiobambi, 
where we were entertained with couscous and milk. As I was 
going to eat out of a calebash which had been used for milking 
the cows, I was prevented by the assurance, that if I made 
use of it the cows would all die. 
At three o'clock we again set off, and proceeded south- 
ward ; w^e had not gone far when Maka met his brother, who 
offered me a measure of millet, and whom I paid with a neck- 
lace of glass beads for his pretty daughters ; he then held out 
his hand to me, as I thought to ask for something more, but 
