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call cagnan : this is a sort of small loaves or rolls, made of 
pistachio-nuts, baked and pounded, then mixed with maize, 
and sweetened with honey. These loaves form a portion of 
their provision when travelling. I observed a young Foulah 
who gazed at me very stedfastly : he invited me to go with 
him to his camp, where he said he would give me some milk. 
As I did not like to go alone, he requested some of my fellow- 
travellers to accompany me, which two of them readily con- 
sented to do. The young man walked before to shew us the 
way, and he took the trouble to remove some large pieces of 
stone which obstructed our path. On reaching his camp, 
which was not far from the place of our halt, he spread out a 
bullock's hide, upon which he begged me to seat myself. 
The camp consisted of five or six straw huts of a roundish 
form, and so exceedingly low that it was necessary to stoop 
nearly double to get into them. The furniture consisted of 
a few mats and sheep-skins, and calabashes to hold milk : the 
bed was composed of four stakes fixed in the ground, support- 
ing long planks of wood, which were covered with a bullock's 
hide. He went to fetch his old mother and sisters to see me. 
He told them that I was an Arab, a countryman of the 
Prophet's, going to Mecca. They looked at me with great 
interest, and, making several gestures, exclaimed, La allah 
il allah, Mahommed rasoul oullahi (There is no god but 
God, and Mahomet is his prophet) to which I replied 
according to the usual form. They seated themselves at a 
little distance from me that they might view me at their ease. 
The young Foulah went to fetch me some milk in a calabash, 
which he washed, an extraordinary ceremony in this part of 
the world ; and he afterwards brought me a little fried meat : 
I requested him to eat with me, but, pointing with his finger 
to the moon, he said, smiling, and with an air of timidity, 
" I fast ; it is the Ramadan." 
From this little camp we discerned the village of Mi- 
ray^, situated on the declivity of a high hill, apparently 
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