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n^d^ ; these are very common and very useful to the inha- 
bitants. I never saw^ as I have done in Fouta and Baleya, 
trees cut off four or five feet from the ground ; the Foulahs 
of Wassoulo are careful to take up the roots, and leave 
nothing in their fields that can be injurious. In shorty as 
I said before, they are as careful in their husbandry as our 
own farmers. I had many visiters all day long ; the 
weather was stormy, and in the evening there was much 
lightning in the south, and a high wind from the S. W. 3 
rain fell in torrents during part of the night, and the thunder 
was tremendously loud. In the evening my companions 
fell to work to kill the sheep which had been given to me, 
and we had a pretty good supper. Many of the Foulahs 
took leave of us to go to the market at Morila. 
On the 19th of July, at nine in the morning, we left 
Kimba 5 our host's son served us as a guide. We travelled 
a mile to the south, and crossed a wide river, which was 
running from west to east, at the rate of two knots and 
a half an hour ; in this place it was eight or nine feet deep ; 
its banks which are rather high and barren, are composed of 
giey argillaceous earth, and in some parts of red earth 
mixed with small gravel. 1 inquired the name of this river, 
and nobody could inform me what it was ; at last an old 
woman told me that it was the Sarano, and that is the same 
which passes by Kankary. We crossed in a very long and 
very narrow canoe, which leaked as if it had been a 
basket ; I was not particularly well pleased to find myself 
in the middle of the river in this frail bark, from which we 
were continually baling out the water with a calabash : my 
guide Arafanba stood up in the boat and sang prayers out 
of the Koran with a loud voice; he was no doubt praying 
that God would grant us a safe passage. About eleven 
o'clock we reached the right bank, without any other damage 
than getting some of our things wet. We continued our 
route to the south, over a grey sand full of gravel. The 
