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we directed our course to E.N. E., and proceeded three 
miles across a country similar to that through which we 
passed the day before. We met a caravan of Mandingo 
traders coming from Jenne, and halted, at eight in the even- 
ing, at Couriban-Sanso. 
On the 25th of February, we started at sun- rise, travel- 
ling eight miles E. N. E. The soil continued unvaried, and 
the country very open. At ten o'clock in the morning we 
reached a small neat village, called Kimpana, where we 
passed the remainder of the day and the succeeding night. 
On the 26th of February, at six in the morning, we 
again resumed our journey, proceeding six miles N. E., over 
a fine gravelly soil. I observed several specimens of the 
rhamnus lotus, and various other trees, of which I did not 
know the names. At ten o'clock we halted at Carabara, a 
village containing five or six hundred inhabitants. A great 
market is held here. The wells, which are without the 
boundaries of the village, are twelve or fourteen feet deep, 
and contain very good water. 
On the 27th of February, we advanced six miles to 
N. N.W. The ground was covered with fine gravel; ces 
and nedes were becoming less frequent, but I observed some 
bombaces and mimosas. It was near eleven o'clock when 
we halted at the village of Nenesso, the environs of which 
are well cropped with millet and cotton, and I saw also some 
baobabs. 
At ten in the morning of the 28th February, we re- 
sumed our course N.N.W., and advanced four miles over a 
sandy and well cultivated soil, in which grow many large 
baobabs. We halted at Nomou, a village situated in a 
beautiful open plain, where I saw some fine plantations of 
cotton and tobacco ; the latter had long pointed leaves, and, 
if properly prepared, it would, no doubt, be as good as ours. 
The people take great pains in cultivating it. They first sow 
the seed in beds, and when the plant has attained a certain 
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