282 COMMERCE. 
men go to Kissi, where they procure handsome slaves, who 
are purchased each at the price of a cask of gunpowder, 
(contaming twenty-five pounds) a bad musket (worth five 
gourdes) and four yards of pink silk. A Mandingo who pos- 
sesses a dozen slaves may live at his ease without tra- 
velling, merely by taking the trouble to superintend them. 
A brisk trade is carried on between the Kankan and the 
neighbouring countries, and it receives from the Wassoulo 
white cloth of native manufacture, which is highly valued in 
commerce ; the inhabitants possess some hairy sheep, goats 
and abundance of horned cattle. These last are not so large 
as ours, and have a hump on the back, Uke those belonging 
to the Moors who inhabit the banks of the Senegal. The 
country also furnishes handsome horses, which, however, are 
far from attaining the excellence of the Arabians. I saw at 
the alkali's a mare which cost five slaves and two oxen ; 
it was the finest animal I had met with throughout this part 
of Africa. The people rear a great quantity of poultry, and 
their cattle supply them with plenty of milk. 
In their household affairs they are particularly neat 
and clean, and they are always dressed in very white cloth. 
They manufacture fine calico from the cotton which the 
women spin ; they seldom sell it, but use it for their own gar- 
ments. Each habitation is surrounded by a fence of straw 
or a thorn hedge. Within this enclosure are the huts, and on 
the outside of it is a small garden, in which the women and 
children cultivate maize and some tobacco. The streets are 
broad and clean, and the town is shaded by numerous date- 
trees, papaws, bombaces, and baobabs. 
At the distance of three days' journey south of Kankan 
is situated the first village of the Sangaran, the name of 
which I have forgotten. Six days' journey further on, across 
the Sangaran, lies the beautiful country of Kissi, which must 
not be confounded with Kissi-kissi, in the neighbourhood 
of Sierra- Leone. Lamfia, who made several journeys thither 
