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MODE OF GATHERING HAZE. 
Arab countries that I have visited. We hired two carrier- 
bullocks, and at ten o'clock resumed our journey. I had 
walked all the way from Podor to this place ; but, as we 
had increased the number of our oxen, I obtained permission 
to ride one of them. 
After travelling eight miles to the N, E. over a stony 
soil, we came to a small camp composed of fifteen tents 
and some ill built straw huts, the dwellings of slaves. The 
baggage was deposited in a tent, and I was invited to retire 
to another. To avoid disagreeable visits, I pretended to be 
asleep, but it was to no purpose ; the whole evening I had 
to endure the same kind of persecutions as I had suffered 
in the preceding camps. We supped very late ; our meal 
consisted of sangleh, made with fresh milk. Having ob- 
served that the grains of which this mess was composed 
were whole, 1 inquired the reason, and was told that it was 
not millet, but haze*, and that at this season the marabouts 
employ their slaves in gathering it. This grain is very 
common, and grows naturally without cultivation. Some 
slaves employed in this sort of harvest were pointed out to 
me : they were females, provided with a small broom, 
and two baskets, one of which, less than the other, is of an 
oval shape and has a handle above. When the haze is in 
the ordinary state and has not been trampled by cattle, 
they go along swinging this basket to the right and left, so 
as to rub the ears of the plants against it by striking them 
with their hands ; the ripe grains fall into the basket, and 
when they have obtained a certain quantity they pour it into 
the larger one, which is destined to receive the produce 
of their labour. This method furnishes the grain in 
a much cleaner state than the second, but the quantity 
* This is the same thing as the haJcat of the negroes of Walo ; it is a 
holms, the grain of which nearly resembles our millet— perhaps the holcm 
sorghum. 
