INTERIOR OF AFRICA. 
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One — - — Ba?ii. 
Two — — ~ Filio. 
Three Sicco. 
Four — Narrato, 
Five Karrago. 
Six Toomo. 
Seven Nero. 
Eight _ Sego. 
Nine Kahbo. 
Ten Tamo. 
, Twenty Tamo difillu. 
We arrived at Joag, the frontier town of this kingdom on 
the 24jth of December ; and took up our residence at the house 
of the chief man, who is here no longer known by the title of 
Alkaid, but is called the Dooty. He was a rigid Mahomedan. 
but distinguished for his hospitality. This town maybe supposed, 
on a gross computation, to contain two thousand inhabitants. 
It is surrounded by a high wall, in which are a number of port 
holes, for musquetry to fire through, in case of an attack. Every 
man's possession is likewise surrounded by a wall ; the whole 
forming so many distinct citadels; and amongst a people unac- 
quainted with the use of artillery, these walls answer all the pur- 
poses of stronger fortifications. To the westward of the town 
is a small river, on the banks of which the natives raise great 
plenty of tobacco and onions. 
The same evening Madiboo the Bushreen, who had accom- 
panied me from Pisania, went to pay a visit to his father and 
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