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of Wassouloj wlioiii they resemble extremely in their coiin- 
tenances, their apparel, their customs and habits of life. 
They were never weary of looking at me, and said that they 
had never seen a white man ; for the Moors of this country 
do not travel. Part of the evening was stormy, which at 
first prevented the inhabitants from seeing me ; but they 
made themselves amends after the rain was over, crowding 
round me till eight o'clock in the evening with the same 
eagerness and curiosity ; they also lighted straw, and paid 
me the same compliments as the people of Yonmouso. 
Oil the ^6th of July, at seven in the morning, we 
gave a present to our host and prepared to set off. I per- 
ceived that the village was surrounded by a wall, and that 
the inhabitants cultivated tobacco round their houses, for 
their own use. I was followed by a crowd for about half an 
hour ; we crossed an inundated plain of indigo, which grows 
spontaneously, and afterwards passed over a very tottering 
bridge ; here the villagers left us. I saw some cultivated 
land, but not in such good order as what I had left behind 
me. The husbandmen bring their fowls with them into 
the fields, to eat up the insects. We continued our course 
to the S. E. ; and travelled eleven miles briskly enough ; the 
country around us was level, and better wooded than what 
we had crossed for the last few days. We arrived at Nou- 
gouda a wailed village, inhabited by Bambaras ; and stayed 
there some time to change porters ; w^e also bought a little 
milk and degue to refresh ourselves. We then continued for 
five miles more to the south ; at a considerable distance to 
the S. W. I S. of our route, I saw three very high moun- 
tains with flattened peaks ; we travelled two miles to the 
S. S. E. over a woody country, covered with ferruginous 
stones, and not cultivated. About four in the afternoon, 
we reached Tangouroman, a walled village which contains 
about three or four hundred Bambara inhabitants ; we were 
nearly tired out, for we had travelled at a great rate, because 
