CULTIVATION OF MILLET. 
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A Wolof* slave having heard me speak her language 
came up to me and inquired if J was acquainted with her 
country : I availed myself of this opportunity to learn some 
particulars concerning their occupations. She informed me 
that the wealthy Moors send out slaves every year to sow 
millet^ and that after the harvest they return to the camp of 
their masters. I went to look at their fields and found them 
badly cultivated. The negroes were busy weeding the millet; 
they merely scratched the surface of the ground^ which^ from 
its clayey compact nature ought to be turned up to some 
depth and broken. 
At two o'clock we pursued our route to the E. J N. E. 
and, having proceeded eight miles, crossed a rivulet in which 
the w^ater was up to our waists: its current, which is very 
rapid, runs to the N. N. W. I was told that this stream 
descends from the mountains situated near Galam, the di- 
rection of which was pointed out to me to the E. S. E. ; ac- 
cording to the Moors, it is absorbed by a lake about three 
days' journey from the spot where we halted. 
After crossing this rivulet, my guides changed their 
direction : we travelled five miles to the east over ground 
covered with khakames, which incommoded me exceedingly. 
It then became stony and hilly, and we proceeded a mile to 
the north that we might arrive at water ; and about eleven we 
reached a ])ool, the water of which was tolerably good. We 
kindled a fire for the purpose of cooking our supper, but, 
by the time it was ready, a violent storm came on. The 
Moors took off their coussabes — a sort of tunics — and put 
them into the pots to protect them from the rain : I did the 
same, so that we were all naked. We collected wood, made 
* The negroes who inhabit the countries of Cayor, Walo, and 
Ghiolof, are called Wolofs. They all speak the same language, with 
some modifications in the different countries. This language is understood 
by the Foulahs of Fouta Toro and their neighbours, the Serreres, as also 
by the Moors who travel in those parts. 
