CURIOSITY TO SEE THE AUTHOR. 
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thorns. Being unable to endure this treatment any longer, 
I started up in a rage, and my persecutors run away: I 
then went to Boubou-Fanfale, and expressed my dissatis- 
faction at his conduct towards me. I represented to him 
that I was about to turn Musulman, and that on this account 
he ought to protect me and to procure me a little rest. He 
spoke to an old marabout, who had great difficulty to keep 
off the crowd ; 1 then accompanied my protector to prayers, 
and on my return lay down upon a mat. A calabash of 
milk, containing about four quarts, was given me for sup- 
per ; and more was offered me in case I had not had enough. 
This was the season when the pastures were in the best con- 
dition ; there was abundance of milk and we were supplied 
with more than we could drink. 
September 6th. At seven in the morning, we prepared 
to depart. The women and children had assembled round 
me ; for more than half an hour the rabble of the camp 
followed at my heels ; the women, with their faces concealed 
by the end of the Guinea cloth which serves them for a gar- 
ment, affected to take no notice of me, and turned their 
heads when I looked at them, while the boys pelted me with 
stones, crying : Tahale ichouf el nasrani ! Come and see 
the christian !" I faced about several times, and then they 
all ran away ; but they returned the next moment, and were 
more troublesome thaji before. At length my guides, weary 
themselves of these importunities, drove off the crowd, who 
returned to the camp. 
It was nine o'clock when we arrived at the camp of Sidi- 
Mohammed : we stopped there to obtain bullocks, for ours 
were exceedingly fatigued. The whole camp thronged round 
me, and I had to endure a repetition of all the annoyances 
of the preceding night. To quench our thirst we were sup- 
plied with a large calabash full of sour milk mixed with three 
parts of water ; this pleasant and wholesome beverage 
is called cheiii by the Moors, and is common in all the 
