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a small yam on the coals^ and I roasted a few pistachio- nuts, 
which we ate together ; after having presented our host with 
some small glass beads, we proceeded on our journey ; it was 
then about nine o'clock. It still rained hard, and my um- 
brella was of little use, because the high grass, and the bushes 
which covered the road, wetted me as much as the rain. We 
travelled towards the south ; at some distance from Timicoro, 
I saw a few poor fields of foigne and yams in a bad state of 
cultivation ; the owners had not even taken the trouble to 
grub up the bushes. We passed the village of Yango-Fire, 
situated near a rivulet, where I saw plenty of poultry. We 
proceeded at first to the south, and then towards the east. We 
passed Brokhosso; to the S. E. of which I perceived a large 
hill, which appeared to be entirely destitute of vegetation. 
After crossing some fields of foigne, and others of french- 
beans, the first that 1 had seen since I left the coast, we ar- 
rived about half-past one in the afternoon, at the neat little 
village of Time, inhabited by Mandingo Mahometans ; it is 
shaded by a number of enormous bombaces, and by a few 
boababs; we had travelled about ten raiks. Three or four 
miles to the east of Time, we noticed a chain of mountains, 
which were probably eighteen hundred or two thousand feet 
high ; this range stretches from north to east. That which 
faces the village is more elevated, and covered with fine vege- 
tation, except on the summit, which is very bare. 
