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when they saw us ; my guides prevented me from firing at 
them, asserting that they would all attack me, and that 
besides it was a crime to kill men who had been changed for 
their sins into monkeys. We then crossed a mountain which 
was entirely bare. It was composed of ferruginous rocks, 
greyish ashes and yellow sand. From this elevated spot we 
discerned Bandéia, situated on the declivity of another moun- 
tain. It was the mosque that enabled us to distinguish this 
village, although still at the great distance which we were 
from it. Boubou resided there ; and when we arrived, he 
offered us hospitality. The news of his safe return soon 
brought to his house all his neighbours, who came to congra- 
tulate him, although he was a bad man, as I afterwards learned 
to my cost. 
April 8th. As we had need of rest, and it was also 
necessary to procure a supply of provisions, I stopped at 
Bandéia. My poor horse was so overcome by fatigue, that 
he refused to eat ; I agreed with Boubou to leave him at his 
house until my return from Timbo ; he engaged to give him 
daily two measures of millet, and a certain quantity of hay, and 
I on my part was to pay him ten grains of amber, and thirty 
charges of powder every month. If at my return the horse 
was recovered, I was to make Boubou a present, and in case 
the animal died Boubou was to cut off his tail and legs, that 
I might see them. Such precautions were indispensable 
with these people. This arrangement being concluded, I 
