every little circumstance which had happened to the coffle,
beginning with the events of the present day and relating everything
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 JALLONKA WILDERNESS; A WARLIKE TALE



We continued at Kinytakooro until noon of the 22nd 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.

At daybreak on the 23rd we departed from this village and entered
the Jallonka Wilderness. We passed in the course of the morning the
ruins of two small towns which had lately been burnt by the Foulahs.