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of the rattle they made^ accompanied the music very well. 
The musicians walked in a file^ playing and moving in time ; 
the women and children followed^ dancing and clapping their 
hands. I was greatly amused with watching them, and their 
dance was free from all indecency. They passed part of the 
night in this diversion ; and the two great drums produced a 
good effect. Since I had left the coast I had met with no- 
thing that pleased me so much as this scene ; 1 was never 
tired of their music, which seemed to me harmonious, 
although it had in it something wild : it is worthy of the 
traveller's attention. Our host gave us a supper of boiled 
foigne, which was accompanied with herbs, but rather un- 
palatable for want of salt and butter ; we ate our portion 
however with a very good appetite, for we had taken nothing 
that day but a bit of yam and some pistachio-nuts. The 
saracolets bought milk, and cooked their rice, which they 
invited me to share with them. 
Four days' journey to the east of Diecoura is Morila, a 
village surrounded with walls, where a market is held ; and 
to the E. N. E. of Morila is the town of Kankary, situated on 
a river, which runs to the south and falls into the Dhioliba. 
This town belongs to the Bambaras of Sego, and has a con- 
siderable market. I obtained the above information from 
the natives of the country. 
My goods had gone forward with my guide, who went 
to Kimba to one of his acquaintance, but I was so fatigued 
that I preferred sleeping in the village to going any farther ; 
we were to rejoin him the next day : the absence of my 
baggage preventing me from paying my host, one of the 
saracolets was so obliging as to discharge the debt with a 
few trinkets of glass, and he would never afterwards allow me 
to reimburse him. 
On the 18th of July, we took leave of our hosts at six in 
the morning, and directed our course E. S. E. for about a 
mile. We crossed the Lin in a canoe, so ill- contrived. 
