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SARAYA. 
We stopped the whole of the 5th of June at Saraya, in 
order to recover a little from our fatigue. My feet were 
very painful^ for my sandals galled me. 
I surveyed the village and its neighbourhood. It is 
surrounded by two earth walls^ nine feet high, and eight 
or ten inches thick. The entrance gate is surmounted 
by a close range of loopholes for muskets. 1 also re- 
marked a little sentry box, round which there were holes 
looking in every direction. This village, which is on the 
frontier of Baleya, is situated in a sandy plain, level, 
open, and fertile. I saw in the neighbourhood large bom- 
baces, baobabs, nedes, and ces. Indigo grows here with- 
out cultivation, and is employed by the natives for dying 
their cloths. I shall hereafter describe the way in which 
they use it. Water is procured here from wells, two feet 
deep, and though rather thick, it is very pleasant to the 
taste. The negroes of Saraya, who are all Dhialonkes, 
came to see me during the day, and brought me little pre- 
sents of milk, and the chief gave me a fowl, which we ate * 
for supper. I gave Lamfia some glass trinkets to purchase 
rice and honey, as I wished to treat the people of our cara- 
van. I observed that Lamfia kept some of the glass for him- 
self ; but this was a trifle which I did not think worth while 
to notice to him. I asked him to get the rice pounded, and 
made into cakes with the honey which I had bought and 
that which the people had given me. Lamfia and his wife 
mixed with their dirty hands the flour, honey, and pow- 
dered allspice. They made it into little cakes, which, after 
a great deal of kneading, were baked in the sun, and put 
into a little bag to be eaten on our journey. To add to my 
stock of provisions, I bought some salt, an article which was 
beginning to be very scarce and dear. I learned that the 
village of Foho, the residence of the chief of Baleya, was a 
day's journey E. N. E. of Saraya. The people advised me 
not to go to Foho, " For," said they, " the chief is not a 
