NEYREH. 
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But for this attention of the humane old man's, I should not 
have been able to prosecute my journey on the following day. 
Having extracted a great quantity of thorns from my 
feet, I thought myself capable of starting, when I was sud- 
denly seized with a most violent pain in my left arm, which 
obliged me to halt that day and the 12th at this village. I 
saw the lake of Panieh-Foul or N'gher; it is at this part 
about a mile broad. 
On the 13th at sun-rise 1 set out from Mall with my old 
marabout, who insisted on accompanying me to Nieyeh,* 
about three miles distant. The whole country between these 
two villages is highly cultivated. It was eight in the morning 
when I parted from my guide : 1 proceeded northward, and 
about ten arrived at Neyreh. 1 sought a lodging with the 
chief of the village, to whom the old marabout at Mall had 
directed me, and who received me very kindly. He ques- 
tioned me concerning the object of my journey ; I replied 
that I was going to embrace the Mahometan faith : he highly 
approved my design^ and endeavoured to impress me with the 
notion that God was extremely gracious to me in thus deliver- 
ing me from the flames to which the christians are destined. 
My disguise deceived some persons ; for, being in the evening 
at the door of the hut for the sake of coolness, I overheard 
a dispute between two women, one of whom asserted that I 
was a Moor. 
On the following day, the 14th, I joined a Moor and 
three M oorish females who were travelling the same way as 
I was ; they were mounted on carrier-bullocksf. At the 
distance of about three miles, we met a troop of Moors and 
negroes of W^lo, who attempted to rob me. One of the Moors 
* Or Niegueh. 
f The carrier-bullock is a particular species. It has a bunch on 
the back. After it has been castrated, it is accustomed while very young 
to carry burdens ; and to make it the more tractable, a cord is run through 
its nostrils. 
