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VARIOUS INCIDENTS. 
entertainment, some of them said they thought 
we were lovers of mankind. They minutely 
examined my dress, but were most diverted by 
finding hair instead of wool upon my head. In 
this country the sheep are covered with hair, and 
the human head with wool. This is, perhaps, 
the most remarkable difference between European 
and African animals, of the same species, that is to 
be met with. Two of the women present were 
by the others pointed out to us as belonging to a 
superior rank. 
Mungallee came into the tent while we were at 
dinner, knelt at the table, and examined every 
article upon it. He had never seen potatoes, and 
Kossie would not believe that cheese was hard- 
ened milk. Both of them were acquainted with 
salt, but never had seen pepper, 
A relation of Munameets, who was Avell ac- 
quainted with the road to the Marootzee country, 
consented to accompany us thither ; but we could 
have done without him, as the Marootzee men 
whom we had met at Meribohwhey, on their way 
to Lattakoo, had returned to Mashow, being 
unable to procure a guide to that town. They 
proposed first to go home, and then, under our 
protection, to travel to Lattakoo. 
I was informed that about a day's journey to 
