VILLAGE OF LANTEGUE. 
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which flowed over a bed of granite. The road was wet and 
muddy, which rendered our journey fatiguing. After travel* 
ling half a mile to N. E. and another half mile to the east, 
we arrived at nightfall at an ouronde, or slave village, called 
Lantegue. We were again overtaken by rain on the road, 
and 1 had recourse to my umbrella which, however, did not 
entirely protect me. The chief of Lantegue gave us a hut. 
Before it there was a beautiful orange-tree, beneath which I 
sat down on a sheep-skin. Thunder was again heard. The 
sky was covered with clouds, the atmosphere warm and damp, 
and it continued raining the whole of the night. The in- 
cessant flashes of lightning continually illuminated our hut, 
the door of which would not more than half shut. 
We stopped at Lantegue the whole of the 26th, for one 
of the slaves of our caravan, who was heavily laden, had bad 
feet. I spent a part of the day in visiting the village and its 
inhabitants, who were about one hundred and fifty in number. 
Many of them thought me too white for a Moor. 
I observed round the huts some fine bananas, pine- 
apples, cassavas, yams, and various other useful plants. 
They were well cultivated. It is the women's business to 
attend to them. The men labour in the rice fields, &c. The 
heat was very great during the day, which denoted a storm 
in the evening. We were now approaching the rainy season 
which in these mountainous districts commences in April, and 
continues six consecutive months. In the course of the day a 
little dispute arose between my guide Ibrahim and two Man- 
dingoes of his village, who insisted on having their share of 
the value of a bullock, which had been given to them by M. 
Castagnet, at Kakondy. The two Mandingoes came to me, 
and wished me to decide their difference. However, my 
decision only made the matter worse, and so irritated my 
guide, that he threatened to leave me, which would, of course, 
have thrown me into no little embarrassment. At length, a 
young negro, who had been to Sierra-Leone and spoke a 
