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thickly wooded. The village is inhabited partly by Foulahs 
and partly by Dhialonkes, all Mahometans. We took our 
leave of the hospitable young Foulah, and returned to 
our halting place^ where we found some of our party return- 
ing from Dougue, whither they had been to purchase rice 
for our journey. We slept in some little huts, made of 
branches of trees, covered with straw. These huts served 
to shelter travellers in rainy weather, for the village of 
Dougue lies at some distance from the road. 
At four in the morning of the 24th of April, our cara- 
van again moved forward. We proceeded eastward, along 
a pleasant road covered with fine gravel, and soon reached 
a stony mountain, which we ascended. In turning another 
mountain, seven or eight hundred feet high, we almost made 
the round of the compass. We then came to a beautiful 
valley, watered by a large rivulet, which the natives call 
Bangala : it runs from N. to S. We proceeded E. S. E. 
for the distance of half a mile. We then ascended a moun- 
tain of the same height as that just mentioned, and exceed- 
ingly steep. On reaching the summit we descended the 
other side by a very rapid slope, and, at eleven in the morning, 
we halted in a fine valley, near a spring surrounded by hil- 
locks. We took our dinner beneath the shade of a bombax. 
At one in the afternoon we proceeded to the S. S. E. still 
across mountains. We passed near the huts of some Foulah 
herdsmen. When we were about four miles from the place 
where we had stopped to dine, we were overtaken by a vio- 
lent storm. The thunder roared tremendously, and the 
rain poured in torrents. We took shelter in the herdsmen's 
huts. The storm lasted nearly two hours and a half. When 
it was over we journeyed onward to Dougol, a small slave 
village,* about a mile and a half from the herdsmen's huts. 
* A place which the masters of slaves allot to their agricultural 
negroes ; they have each a hut and a piece of ground, the produce of 
which supports them. 
