The
coffle; beginning with the events of the present day, and relating every
thing, in a backward series, until they reached Kamalia. When this
history was ended, the master of the town gave them a small present, and
all the people of the coffle, both free and enslaved, were invited by
some person or other, and accommodated with lodging and provisions for
the night.
CHAPTER XXV.
_The coffle crosses the Jallonka Wilderness. - Miserable fate of one of
the female slaves. - Arrives at Sooseeta. - Proceeds to Manna. - Some
account of the Jallonkas. - Crosses the main stream of the
Senegal. - Bridge of a singular construction. - Arrives at
Malacotta. - Remarkable conduct of the King of the Jalofs._
We continued at Kinytakooro until noon of the 22d of April, when we
removed to a village about seven miles to the westward, the inhabitants
of which being apprehensive of hostilities from the Foulahs of Fooladoo,
were at this time employed in constructing small temporary huts among the
rocks, on the side of a high hill close to the village. The situation was
almost impregnable, being everywhere surrounded with high precipices,
except on the eastern side, where the natives had left a pathway
sufficient to allow one person at a time to ascend. Upon the brow of the
hill, immediately over this path, I observed several heaps of large loose
stones, which the people told me were intended to be thrown down upon the
Foulahs, if they should attempt the hill.
