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race (admitting the Mandingos as traders or friends). At Bulata 

 (2,253 feet) Anderson passed beyond the limit of oil palms, v/hich 

 throughout Western and Equatorial Africa are associated with 

 the forest region. He was now in an open country of grass- 

 lands, with a dry atmosphere and (seemingly) a healthy climate, 

 with deliciously cool nights. The people of the country were 



68. A MANDINGO HORSE (iN SIERRA LEONE) 



Mandingos, Muhammadans of course, horse-breeders and riders 

 of horses. Their capital town was Musadu.^ 



At Musadu and elsewhere in the Mandingo country 



' The Americo-Liberians have never yet mastered the true principles of modern 

 P3ngHsh orthography, copying in this the mass of the United States population, 

 which is still very eighteenth-century in its use of the English alphabet. Con- 

 sequently, again and again the letter r is used to supplement the vowel a in order 

 to give the latter the sound of a m father. Musadu is the phonetic spelling. The 

 place has not been found (seemingly) or recognised by subsequent French travellers. 



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