TREATMENT OF TRAVELLERS. 
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pasturage, which is inundated in the rainy season, and the 
trees are finer there than elsewhere. 
On the 21st, 1 suffered much from the colic. One of 
my marabout's sons repeated prayers, and then spat on my 
stomach, assuring me that it was an excellent remedy ; he 
did the same to the milk which I was to drink, and I let 
him have his own way, disgusting as it was, rather than 
contradict his opinions. 
In the evening, a caravan on its way to Fouta, to ex- 
change salt for millet, stopped at our camp, and took up 
its quarters in the midst of us ; mats were brought to 
serve as beds for the travellers. At ten o'clock at night, 
milk was brought to the marabout, from all sides, and cala- 
bashes full of sangleh and milk, which were distributed 
among the ziafis, or travellers. 
When a caravan is small, only a part of the camp contri- 
butes to the supply of its wants, and the inhabitants take their 
turns to do so : if it is large, every body furnishes his 
quota. If it arrives in the day time, the chief of the camp, 
when he goes to the mosque to prayer, makes a collection for 
the ziafis, and each person sends a measure or two of grain 
according to the number of the strangers. A slave is 
appointed to pound the corn and prepare the sangleh. When 
a traveller arrives alone, he goes to any tent he pleases, and 
the owner supplies him without having recourse to his neigh- 
bours. As strangers always prefer the best-looking tents, 
the same tent is often visited five or six days in succession. 
Travellers frequently stay some time in the camp ; for the 
first three days they are fed as a matter of right, after which 
the master of the tent is at liberty to refuse them provisions. 
The hassanes when they travel are always unwelcome guests, 
on account of the arbitrary manner in which they exact what 
they want. If they are not waited upon as quickly as they 
expect, they clamour and threaten, and call their host an 
infidel — the most opprobrious epithet that can be bestowed 
