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DISEASES. 
to powder. This is the only way in which the inhabitants 
use tobacco. I never saw any prepared in the European 
manner at Time. 
They have small hard beans of a grey colour which they 
boil. The giraumon also grows here. It is cooked with 
pistachio-nuts and pimento. This last plant, so common in 
hot countries, does not thrive well here; the inhabitants 
therefore purchase it in their journeys to the south, where 
they also procure a long kind of pepper vi^hich they are very 
fond of. They call it cani, the name of the place whence it 
is brought, and merchants carry this pepper to Jenne to ex- 
change it for salt. 
The most common distempers at Time are ophthalmia, 
eruptive sores, swellings of the neck and throat, fevers and 
leprosy. Scurvy also makes its appearance sometimes. I 
never saw any deformed person in these parts. Colds are 
very common. 
