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of Ills master, who, satisfied with his services, had given 
him his freedom. He added, that his chief desire was 
to get back to Egypt, and resume the Mohammedan 
religion. 
On the 22nd March, 1827, Caillie left Freetown for 
Kakondy, a village on the Rio Nunez, where he em¬ 
ployed his leisure in collecting information respecting 
CAILLIE CROSSING THE TANKISSO. 
the Landaxnas and the Nalous, both subject to the 
Foulahs of Fouta Djallon, but not Mohammedans, and, 
as a necessary result, both much given to spirituous 
liquors. They dwell in the districts watered by the 
Rio Nunez, side by side with the Bagos, an idolatrous 
race who dwell at its mouth. The Bagos are light¬ 
hearted, industrious, and skilful tillers of the soil; they 
