The Fears Of My
Attendants Supposed The Latter; And Believing That Robbers Lurked
Near As, I Was Persuaded To Change My Resolution Of Resting Here All
Night, And Proceed To Another Watering-Place, Which I Was Assured We
Might Reach Early In The Evening.
We departed accordingly, but it was eight o'clock at night before we
came to the watering-place; and being
Now sufficiently fatigued with
so long a day's journey, we kindled a large fire and lay down,
surrounded by our cattle, on the bare ground, more than a gunshot
from any bush, the negroes agreeing to keep watch by turns to
prevent surprise.
I know not, indeed, that any danger was justly to be dreaded, but
the negroes were unaccountably apprehensive of banditti during the
whole of the journey. As soon, therefore, as daylight appeared, we
filled our soofroos (skins) and calabashes at the pool, and set out
for Tallika, the first town in Bondou, which we reached about eleven
o'clock in the forenoon (the 13th of December).
CHAPTER IV - FROM TALLIKA TO KAJAAGA
Tallika, the frontier town of Bondou towards Woolli, is inhabited
chiefly by Foulahs of the Mohammedan religion, who live in
considerable affluence, partly by furnishing provisions to the
coffles, or caravans, that pass through the town, and partly by the
sale of ivory, obtained by hunting elephants, in which employment
the young men are generally very successful. Here an officer
belonging to the king of Bondou constantly resides, whose business
it is to give timely information of the arrival of the caravans,
which are taxed according to the number of loaded asses that arrive
at Tallika.
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