394 THE CARAVAN SEPARATES. 
as a token of the pleasure I felt at his resolution, and pur- 
chased a fowl that we might have a good supper. As my 
companions had before declined accepting any part of the 
poultry I bought for myself, for fear of depriving me of it, 1 
insisted on their taking this whole of the fowl ; but yet, at 
supper time, my guide himself brought me my portion of it. 
1 saw in this village a very large tree, the branches 
of which were fringed with small roots. At Tangrera I had 
observed a similar one. It also grows in the island of Saint- 
Louis in the Senegal. This tree, which is a species of ^cus 
mdica, is milky and viscous ; the natives hold their banan- 
coro in its shade. 
On the 24th of January, at six in the morning, the 
chief part of our company took a N. W. direction, on their 
way to Sansanding. We took the road to Jenne, proceed- 
ing four miles to the N. E. over a very smooth soil, com- 
posed of hard grey sand, covered with ferruginous stones. 
We crossed several small streams, the water of which 
reached to our knees. The vegetation did not vary much; 
but I observed a tree which is common in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Senegal ; it bears a round and rather flat 
fruit, and of the size of a golden rennet. It has a grey 
pellicle, and the pulp, of which the negroes are very fond, 
is of a greenish colour. The kernel is fibrous, and the 
leaves of the tree are pinnate, and as large as those of the 
ash. The negroes use the bark in distempers, employing 
it as a caustic. About nine in the morning, we arrived at 
Douasso, where we stopped. It is a small village without 
walls, containing about two hundred, or two hundred and 
fifty inhabitants. 
I experienced great pain in my palate, for the sores 
occasioned by the scurvy, were not yet healed. During the 
halt, I kept myself apart from my companions, being un- 
willing that they should witness my sufferings, or the painful 
operations which I was myself obliged to perfprm, having 
