CHAPTER III. 
JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS FROM KATUNGA, OR EYEO, TO BOUSA, 
ON THE NIGER, OR Q.UORRA, THE PLACE WHERE MUNGO PARK 
PERISHED. 
At three o’clock in the afternoon I set out from Katunga, 
and passed the gates of the town, with the same escort I had on 
entering it, headed, as before, by the king's brother. In the evening 
we halted at the village of Assina for the night, where I got two 
fowls and some yams. The poor people were just returning to their 
houses, from which they had been driven out by the Fellatas last 
year, who continue to infest the country, even up to the gates of 
Katunga. 
Wednesday, 8tli. — Left the village of Assina; the morning dull, 
but cool and pleasant ; arrived at Tshow, where I had breakfast, 
and left it at 10 A. M., and after travelling over very bad roads, cut 
up and crossed by deep rocky ravines, reached the higher ground, 
which was well cultivated ; but their villages appeared to be all in 
ruins, which my guides told me were destroyed last year by the 
F ellatas. At noon arrived at the town of Algi, which is now rising 
from its ruins ; it having shared the same fate as the villages I had 
passed. The inhabitants are now returning to their ruined dwell- 
ings, some of which they have already repaired ; they said they had 
nothing but a little grain, and a few yams for seed ; of these they 
gave me part, and the best house in the town. The Yarro mes- 
senger had not made his appearance, and I now learned, that Algi 
