Major Houghton ran out with the rest of the people into the fields, saving only such articles as could be carried with him.
He mentions, that by trading at Fattatenda, a person may make 800 per cent, and may live in plenty on ten pounds a year.

Quitting the Gambia, he took the road through Bambouk, and arrived at Ferbanna on the Faleme.

Here he was received with the most extraordinary kindness by the king, who gave him a guide and money to defray his expenses.

A note was afterwards received from him, dated Simbing, which contained merely these words: "Major Houghton's compliments to Dr.Laidley, is in good health on his way to Timbuctoo; robbed of all his goods by Fenda, Bucar's son." This was the last communication from him, for soon after the negroes brought down to Pisania, the melancholy tidings of his death, of which Mr.Park subsequently learned the particulars.

Some moors had persuaded the major to accompany them to Tisheet, a place in the great desert, frequented on account of its salt mines.