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HUTS AT TIME. 
When a stranger arrives at Time, who happens to find 
any relations or friends there, if he does not immediately go 
to them, as soon as they hear of his arrival they prepare a 
great dinner for him. This repast, of which a fowl seasoned 
with salt forms part, they send by their wives to the new 
comer. They do not touch it themselves, but prepare a 
dinner for themselves as usual. Soon afterwards they call 
on their friend and receive his thanks ; and, should they even 
find him at his meal, they would not partake of any portion 
of it. After his repast the stranger goes to pay his visit, 
which he would not have done, if the fowl had not been sent 
to him. This custom is very general throughout the 
country. 
The huts of Time are neither so large nor so neat as 
those of the Fouta and Kankan, though they are built in 
the same form, and surrounded by a similar wall of earth, 
six feet high and five inches thick ; it is the women's busi- 
ness to cover this wall with cow-dung, which is purchased 
at the market for a few colats. The huts are roofed with 
straw, and contain no furniture except some mats spread 
upon the ground, which serve for seats in the day-time and 
beds at night, a few earthen pots for culinary purposes, 
wooden plates, calabashes, spatules for stirring the tau, and 
an earthen jar to hold water. The women keep their wood 
in a corner of their huts, lest tlieir indolent neighbours 
might make free with it to save the troubfe of pro- 
curing some for themselves. When they collect their wood, 
they make little presents of portions of it to the aged women 
in their vicinity. The inhabitants of this village do not use 
large earthen jars for ho. ding grain, like the people of Fouta 
and Kankan, which shows that they neither grow so much, 
nor are so rich as the latter. Half a mile from the village 
there is a beautiful clear spring, where the inhabitants fetch 
water for their consumption. This spring is shaded by large 
trees, the name of which I do not know, but which would 
