- I continued my course along the bank of the river,
through a populous and well-cultivated country.
I passed a walled
town called Kamalia {2} without stopping, and at noon rode through a
large town called Samee, where there happened to be a market, and a
number of people assembled in an open place in the middle of the
town, selling cattle, cloth, corn, &c. I rode through the midst of
them without being much observed, every one taking me for a Moor.
In the afternoon I arrived at a small village called Binni, where I
agreed with the dooty's son, for one hundred kowries, to allow me to
stay for the night; but when the dooty returned, he insisted that I
should instantly leave the place, and if his wife and son had not
interceded for me, I must have complied.
August 15. - About nine o'clock I passed a large town called Sai,
which very much excited my curiosity. It is completely surrounded
by two very deep trenches, at about two hundred yards distant from
the walls. On the top of the trenches are a number of square
towers, and the whole has the appearance of a regular fortification.
About noon I came to the village of Kaimoo, situated upon the bank
of the river, and as the corn I had purchased at Sibili was
exhausted, I endeavoured to purchase a fresh supply, but was
informed that corn was become very scarce all over the country, and
though I offered fifty kowries for a small quantity, no person would
sell me any.
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