144 TRAVELS IN THE 
Negro town of Farani, and begged some provisions from the 
Dooti, who readily supplied my wants, and desired me to come to 
his house every day during my stay in the neighbourhood. These 
hospitable people are looked upon by the Moors as an abject 
race of slaves, and are treated accordingly. Two of Ali's house- 
hold slaves, a man and a woman, who had come along with the 
two tents, went this morning to water the cattle from the town 
wells, at which there began to be a great scarcity. When the 
Negro women observed the cattle approaching, they took up 
their pitchers and ran with all possible haste towards the town, 
but before they could enter the gate, they were stopped by the 
slaves, who compelled them to bring back the water they had 
drawn for their own families, and empty it into the troughs for 
the cattle. When this was exhausted, they were ordered to 
draw water until such time as the cattle had all drank ; and the 
woman slave actually broke two wooden bowls over the heads 
of the black girls, because they were somewhat dilatory in 
obeying her commands. 
May 3d. We departed from the vicinity of Farani, and after 
a circuitous route through the woods, arrived at All's camp in 
the afternoon. This encampment was larger than that of Be- 
no wm, and was situated in the middle of a thick wood about two 
miles distant from a Negro town, called Bubaker. I imme- 
diately waited upon Ali, in order to pay my respects to Queen 
Fatima, who had come with him from Saheel. He seemed much 
pleased with my coming ; shook hands with me, and informed 
his wife that I was the Christian. She was a woman of the Arab 
cast, with long black hair, and remarkably corpulent. She 
