Round the black man's garden . ouses, extend for thebest part of a mile. Through this part of the tow^nwe took a stroll with Captain Binger, who showedus as much as he could in the time, as he was start-ing by the evening train for St Louis, where hehad to make arrangements for his followers returnto their home at Bammaku. After seeing him off by train, we went for afurther stroll in the country ; but beyond the largenative town—composed of neat, cleanly-kept conicalhuts, inhabited by a good-looking and very intel-ligent people, who live almost entirely by fishing—and the hospital, built on a
Round the black man's garden . ouses, extend for thebest part of a mile. Through this part of the tow^nwe took a stroll with Captain Binger, who showedus as much as he could in the time, as he was start-ing by the evening train for St Louis, where hehad to make arrangements for his followers returnto their home at Bammaku. After seeing him off by train, we went for afurther stroll in the country ; but beyond the largenative town—composed of neat, cleanly-kept conicalhuts, inhabited by a good-looking and very intel-ligent people, who live almost entirely by fishing—and the hospital, built on a plateau looking towardsCape Yerd, we did not find much to interest us. 340 THE LAND OF DEATH. and rather lamented over the information we hadreceived earlier in the day, that the Messageries boatwhich was to take us home w^as not due for twodays. Had she arrived at once, I should have beenso much nearer home, which by this time I wasquite ready to reach; or had her arrival beenpostponed for a w^eek, we might have accej)ted. Native 7man, Dakai. Captain Bingers invitation to go with him toSt Louis. As it was, there w^as nothing to be donebut try to kill time in this highly civilised butrather uninteresting place. In their due course, how^ever, the hours slippedaway, and at about five in the afternoon of the18th we stepped out of the shore-boat into the ADIEU TO THE BLACK MANs GARDEN. 841 Messageries sliip Portugalc, in which we were toreturn to Europe. We had been warned that it was very necessaryto arrange the price with the boatmen beforehand,and had done so; but they proved too sharp for us,for haviijo^ still e:ot our ba2f2??e in the boat after wehad boarded the ship, they proceeded to ask us formore money, and on Harry saying that he wouldnot give them another sou, they smilingly repliedthat they would take our things back with was furious, and w^as just preparing to springinto the boat again when he was stopped by one ofthe officers, who said that the ship was
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