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BAD Y— DOUDE. 
inhabitants escorted us out of the village. Our course was 
E. S. E. The rain had purified and refreshed the air. We 
passed Courou^ a village situated at the foot of a hill, twenty- 
five or thirty fathoms high. We passed through a fertile and 
picturesque plain, thickly bespangled with small white flowers. 
I saw a number of slaves employed in preparing the ground 
for sowing rice and various kinds of grain. After crossing 
a little stream, we arrived near Bady, a village agreeably 
situated on the banks of a rivulet which we forded, the water 
being nearly as high as our waists. This village contains a 
population of three hundred and fifty, or four hundred ; it is 
situated in a plain, and overlooked by a hill. I saw in the 
neighbourhood some good plantations of a small species of 
tobacco. 
At five o'clock in the afternoon we arrived at Doud^, a 
village of the same size as Bady, and about a mile and a half 
to the E. S. E. of it. The chief came to receive us at the 
entrance of the palisade, by which his grounds were sur- 
rounded. I remarked some cotton very badly cultivated. 
They sow it broad-cast, as we do corn, so that it grows 
too close, which prevents its thriving. I saw a young ne- 
gress gathering the cotton, which appeared to me to be of 
inferior quality. We were lodged in a large and handsome 
hut with two doors, situated on the left of our route. Our 
host felt highly honoured in having beneath his roof a coun- 
tryman of the prophet's ; for my guide had related to him 
the pretended events of my youth. He came up close to 
me, stroked my head with his hands, and then rubbed his own 
face, as if this contact with a countryman of the prophet's 
had in it something holy or salutary. We performed our 
devotions together. The old man had collected near an 
orange-tree a great number of small flints, on which, in the 
spirit of penitence, he knelt to prayer. This greatly an- 
noyed me; for I was obliged to follow his example. He 
afterwards presented to me a child of four or five years of 
