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as they may appear to the fastidious European, bear 
testimony to a certain degree of ease and wealth; 
and few people here seem destitute of the neces- 
saries of life. Besides agriculture, there appears to 
be a good deal of domestic industry, as the market- 
place, situated on the eastern slope of the hill, and 
consisting of from a hundred and fifty to two hun- 
dred stalls, and a dyeing-place close by it, amply 
testify.* I have already mentioned in another place 
the shirts which are dyed in this district, and which 
are called " amaghdi." 
When the heat had abated a little I made a plea- 
sant excursion on horseback, accompanied by Billama 
and Bii-Sad, first in an easterly direction, through 
the plain to a neighbouring village, and then turning 
northward to the komadugu, which forms here a 
beautiful sweep, being lined on the north side by 
a steep grassy bank adorned with fine trees. The 
southern shore was laid out in kitchen-gardens, 
where, a little further in the season, wheat and onions 
are grown. In the bottom of the fiumara we found 
most delicious water only a foot and a half beneath 
the surface of the sand, while the water which we 
obtained in the town, and which was taken from the 
* It was in this place, as I have ascertained with some diffi- 
culty, that Mr. Vogel made the astronomical observation which he 
assigns to Uje, whereas Uje is an extensive district. He has 
made a similar mistake with regard to his observation at Muniyo 
or Minyo. Unfortunately there seems to be a mistake or slip of 
the pen in the cipher representing the longitude of the place ; and 
I have therefore not been able to make use of it. 
