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CHAPTER XIII. 
Description of Time and its environs. — Character, manners, and customs 
of the inhabitants. — Period of circumcision for males, and excision for 
females. — Manufactures, trade, and agriculture. — Indigenous plants. 
— Diseases. 
The village of Time is situated at the distance of two days' 
journey to the south of Sambatikila, fifteen to the north of 
Teute and Cani^ and ten to the north of Tangrera. The 
number of inhabitants is about five or six hundred^ consisting 
partly of Mandingoes, and partly of Bambaras. A wall 
separates the two nation s, but they live together on a friendly 
footings notwithstanding the difference of religion j for the 
Mandingoes are Mahometans^ and the Bambaras pagans. 
Such, however, as are the offspring of a Mandingo mother 
consider themselves superior to the unmixed Bambaras ; they 
nevertheless, remain idolaters. 
There is a chain of mountains to the east of the village. 
During the rainy season, the clouds collect in such masses 
around the summits of these mountains, that for five months 
and a half it rains almost without intermission. I did not 
experience any extraordinary heat during the rainy season. 
The air is always cool and damp, which renders it very 
unhealthy. In the months of December and January, a 
variable, but northerly, wind prevails, which still farther cools 
the atmosphere. The soil consists of good black mould and 
sand. In some parts it is irrigated by a number of small 
rivulets, the overflowing of which, fertilizes the land. The 
birds of the Senegal also inhabit the well- wooded banks of 
these streams. Green parrots are common, but 1 saw no 
paroquets. 
