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always a river, i. e. it never dries. The distance between 
Badoo and Laby in Foota Jalla is five days travel. 
Purcliased two asses. 
May 30tii. — Left Tambaciinda, and entered the woods. 
Travelled very expeditiously till eleven o'clock, when we 
reached a watering place called Fatifing, where we found 
some green dirty water, so bad that nothing but necessity 
would have made us drink it. Halted here till half past 
two o'clock, when we again set forward and reached Tahba 
just at dark : found no water. During the afternoon 
the country to the South hilly and beautiful. A little be- 
fore we reached the halting place some drops of rain fell. 
May 31st. — Left Tabba Gee at day break, and a few 
miles to the east passed a round lump of quartz, called by 
the natives Ta Kooro, or the traveller's stone ; all travel- 
lers lift up this stone and turn it round. The stone is 
worn quite smooth, and the iron rock on which it rests is 
worn hollow by this constant motion. Halted during 
the heat of the day at Mambari, where there is a small 
village built this season ; the former one having been de- 
stroyed by war many years ago. Passed in the course of 
the forenoon two streams running towards Gambia. 
