THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION. 3^1 
Suzees suspected that the Foulahs had come to at- 
tack them ; but these suspicions were removed at 
a convention of the chiefs, who determined that 
the path should be permanently opened through 
their country and an intercourse allowed between 
Teemboo and Sierra Leone. The houses of Sayoua, 
one of the Suzee towns through which they passed, 
were even superior to those of Teemboo. The tra- 
vellers were attended to Sierra Leone by several 
considerable men, who came as ambassadors from 
the Foulahs and other tribes, who, after arranging 
some commercial plans, returned highly gratified 
with their reception. 
In the kingdoms possessed by the Foulahs, the 
rural and domestic economy, as well as the man- 
ners, religion, and government, are almost the same 
as in Foota Jallo. Even on the banks of the Gam- 
bia, the Foulahs raise the greater part of the corn, 
and their cattle are better and more numerous 
than those of the Mandingoes. They are so ex-* 
pert in the breeding and management of cattle, 
that the Mandingoes generally entrust theirs to 
their care. They render them tame and tractable 
by kindness and familiarity ; feed them by day in 
the woods and savannahs, and by night secure 
them in folds strongly fenced, round which fires 
are kept burning by the herdsmen, who remain 
in a hut erected in the middle, to guard them from 
wild beasts and robbers. They make considerable 
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