MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 439 
N,B. I pass over in silence several vegetables ob- 
tained by M. Caillie, and mentioned in the journal of 
the travels, having nothing to add to what he has 
reported, and regretting that his description is in- 
sufficient to shew their nature : for example, that of 
the caura, which our traveller compares to a plum- 
tree. It will be seen by the narrative that orange- 
trees are indigenous in the northern part of Sene- 
gambia*. 
M. Carrier Oxen, In the early part of his journal, M. 
Caillie mentions, by name only, this species of oxen. 
It is a question worthy of the attention of future 
travellers, both as regards commerce and expeditions 
of discovery. 
N. Elephants and Lions. Several persons have testified 
surprise that M. Caillie, during so long a journey, met 
with neither lions, elephants, giraffes, nor any wild 
beast. I am far from disputing the testimony of 
those travellers, who affirm that such have been seen 
in inhabited places ; but, it is certain, that any one 
meeting with such animals on his way cannot have 
any motive for passing over the circumstance in 
silence, and that all travellers are rather partial to 
* M. Caillie has brought away some seeds and fragments of gram- 
ineous and leguminous plants, collected between Time and Djenne, 
and on the banks of the Dhioliba, now deposited at the vice-consulate 
of Tangier, with some white stone from the wells of £l-Araouan, some 
minerals, and the plummet of which I have spoken. 
