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route, by the minkalli : six teelee kissi (a sort of bean, the 
fruit of a large tree) make one minkalli : the weight of six 
teelee kissi is exactly 5^9- In Kaarta they use a small 
bean called jabee kissi, twenty-four of which make one 
minkalli ; a jabee kissi weighs exactly four grains. In 
Kasson, twelve small tamarind stones make one minkalli, 
which I believe is the heaviest minkalli in this part of 
Africa. If gold is purchased with amber, one bead of 
No. 4 will, in almost all eases, purchase one teelee kissi: 
but it can be purchased with more advantage with beads 
or scarlet, and still more so with gunpowder, I did not 
purchase any ; but our guide bought a considerable quan- 
tity, and I was present at all his bargain-making. 
Went in the afternoon to see a brother of Karfa Taura's; 
he had a very large collection of Arabic books, and I made 
him quite happy by adding an Arabic New Testament to 
the number. 
June 12th. — Left Shrondo early in the morning ; the 
sick being unable to walk, I gave them all the horses and 
spare asses. Travelled slowly along the bottom of the 
Konkodoo mountains, which are very steep precipices of 
rock, fi"om eighty to two or three hundred feet high. We 
reached Dindikoo at noon ; at which time it came on a 
tornado so rapidly, that we were forced to carry our bundles 
into the huts of the natives ; this being the first time the 
