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EXPEDITION TO THE NIGER. 
Senegal in the spring of 1816, but was deterred 
by the approach of the rainy season, from setting 
out till the autumn. In October he began to as- 
cend the Rio Nunez, with the view of proceeding 
through the country of Foota Jalla. This would 
have led him, indeed, by the shortest route to the 
Niger, but there appears to have been no suffi- 
cient motive for preferring this unknown and 
perilous tract, to the ascertained and as it were 
beaten route of the Gambia. At Kacundy, near 
the head of the Nunez, Major Peddie was seized 
with a fever and died. The command then de- 
volved upon Captain Campbell, who was joined 
as a volunteer by Lieutenant Stokoe, of the navy. 
Captain Campbell proceeded as far as Pangettoe, 
about 150 miles beyond Kacundy, on the road to 
Laby and Teemboo. Here he was stopped by the 
chief of the Foulahs, under pretence of a war then 
existing between himself and one of his neigh- 
bours. After many transactions and fruitless 
palavers, in the course of which Captain Camp- 
bell lost his camels, horses, and most of his asses, 
he found no alternative left but to retrace his 
steps. He reached Kacundy with the loss of only 
one man ; but disappointment and vexation preyed 
on him so deeply as to be considered the chief 
cause of his death, which soon followed his arrival 
at that place. Lieutenant Stokoe died afterwards 
at Sierra Leone. 
