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the two side balls at the side of the face. 

 A third circumscribed the forehead and 

 turned over the right temple, where pen- 

 dants were attached. 



Quite unlike Timbuctu, which had a 

 Moorish character, Djenne, her sister 

 city, possessed marked characteristics, 

 especially in her architecture, which re- 

 minded me forcibly of Egypt. Perhaps 

 this architecture came with the Fulbeh. 

 The high doorways with projecting col- 

 umns right up to the top of the house, 

 the small musharabfah windows between 

 these two columns, the waterspouts from 

 the roof, the two quadrangles at the sum- 

 mit of the house between square columns, 

 and the small pyramids one above the 

 other ornamenting the roof, were quite 

 unlike anything I had so far met in this 

 zone of Africa. 



The streets were winding and beauti- 

 fully clean. The whole place was en- 

 trancingly interesting and picturesque. 



Djenne is situated in a delightful spot. 

 Its pretty harbor for fishing boats and for 

 canoes carrying merchandise ; the charm- 

 ing little market-place where business is 

 brisk; the dense population of well-to- 

 do and well-dressed people — all contrib- 

 uted to making it attractive for me, who 

 had been for a year among most inartistic 

 natives and unpicturesqne country. 



The journey ended at Cape Verde. 

 Here the French are building a great 

 city, Dakar, which in a few years will 

 probably be the finest city on the west 

 coast of Africa. Long artificial piers 

 projecting into the sea and elaborate 

 clocks have already been constructed, 

 making a safe and deep anchorage. 

 It will not be long before railways will 

 connect the coast with the rich country 

 beyond. 



I climbed onto the very last rock of 

 Cape Verde so that there should be no 

 mistake about my having reached the 

 most westerly point of Africa. Thus 

 ended at this place, on January 5, too7, 

 the longest trans- African journey which 

 has ever been taken from east to west. 



At this point I drank in the company 

 of the French gentleman who had accom- 

 panied me the only two bottles of chani- 



