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pains and wounds : tliey also grease their hair with it, and 
rub it over their bodies, which gives them a rank smell. 
They form a great contrast to the inhabitants of Kankan in 
the article of cleanliness ; for they are altogether filthy and 
disgusting, and never wash their clothes, which are always 
of a black or yellow colour. They wear on their heads a 
cap eighteen inches in height, the top of which is very 
narrow, and hangs down on the back or shoulder ; I could 
hardly guess the original colour, so completely was it always 
disfigured with dirt and butter ; when it drops off in rags 
they provide themselves with a new one. The women have 
no other covering than a pagne, which they wrap round their 
loins ; on their heads they wear a strip of the manufacture 
of the country, which serves as a head-dress. I never saw 
any of them smoke, but they take a great deal of snuff, and 
also rub it on the inside and out of their gums. 
On the 23 rd of July, at seven in the morning, we took 
leave of our hosts, who had given us a very good supper of 
rice the evening before. We directed our course E. S. E. 
and passed a little village, the name of which I have for- 
gotten. At one of the cabins I asked for a little water to 
quench my thirst ; a female slave brought me some in a 
calabash: she knelt down as she presented it to me. We heard 
distant thunder, but had no rain. We continued our pro- 
gress to the S. E. for eight miles, and passed Banankodo, a 
large village of the Foulou, containing four or five hundred 
inhabitants ; it is shaded by large bombaces and boabab 
trees. The country over which we travelled was under 
water, and the plain quite open : it was about noon, when, 
after having gone three miles more, we halted at Yonmouso, 
a Httle hamlet similar to those of the Wassoulos. Arafanba 
fired his piece in token of rejoicing on our arrival at this 
little village, where he had friends, with whom we went to 
seek a lodging, and they forthwith prepared a hut for us, in 
which we passed the night. I had met on the road a Poulh 
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