INTERIOR OF AFRICA. 
CHAPTER V. 
Account of Kajaaga. — SerawoolUes — theirManners and Language. 
— Account of Joag. — The Author is ill treated, and robbed of 
half of his Effects, by Order of Batcheri, the King. — Charity of 
a female Slave. — The Author is visited by Demba Sego, Nephew 
of the King of Kasson, who offers to conduct him in safety to that 
Kingdom. — Offer accepted. — The Author and his Protector, with 
a numerous Retinue, set out and reach Samee, on the Banks of 
the Senegal. — Proceed to Kayee, and crossing the Senegal, ar- 
rive in the Kingdom of Kasson. 
The kingdom of Kajaaga, in which I was now arrived, is called 
by the French, Gallam ; but the name that I have adopted is 
universally used by the natives. This country is bounded on 
the south-east and south by Bambouk ; on the west by Bondou 
and Foota Torra ; and on the north by the river Senegal. 
The air and climate are, I believe, more pure and salubrious 
than at any of the settlements towards the Coast ; the face of 
the country is every where interspersed with a pleasing variety 
of hills and vallies; and the windings of the Senegal river, 
which descends from the rocky hills of the interior, make the 
scenery on its banks very picturesque and beautiful. 
The inhabitants are called Serawoollies, or (as the French 
write it) Seracolets. Their complexion is a jet black : they are 
not to be distinguished in this respect from the JalofFs, 
