publicly by two of the singing men : they enumerated every little circumstance which had happened to 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 thejfallonka 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 Jaloffs. w e continued at Kenytakooro 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 every where 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 23d, 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. The fire must have been very intense ; for I observed that the walls of many of the huts were U u
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