TOBACCO. 
growth^ they transplant it; for this purpose they prepare 
the ground by two diggings, and dividing it into little 
squares^ the plants of tobacco are there placed at the 
distance of eighteen inches asunder ; they are watered twice 
a day, there being wells for that purpose near the plantations. 
The leaves of the tobacco are not gathered until the plant is 
in seed, as the practice of topping is not understood here. 
There is a great consumption of tobacco ; for the people take 
snuff and smoke very much : smoking is indeed the only re- 
creation of the old men ; their pipes are of the same size and 
form as those used in the Wassoulo. They take snuff with a 
small brush or hair pencil. The dress, customs, and manners 
of the people in this part of the country vary but little. 
At six o'clock on the morning of the 29th of February 
we directed our course to N. E. and advanced three miles 
through an open country, similar to that which we had seen 
the day before. We halted at Tamero. While 1 was in the 
market purchasing some cakes, a woman, tolerably well 
dressed, accosted me, and taking me for an Arab, requested 
me to go and see a Moor who was ill in the village. I fol- 
lowed her, and found the sick man, sitting under the shade 
of a bomb ax, employed in killing the vermin with which 
he was tormented. He seemed very poor, being no better 
clothed than myself, and he had a sore on his foot which 
prevented him from walking. He invited me to sit down 
by him, and then asked me whence I came. He was as- 
tonished when I told him that Alexandria was my country : 
he said he had heard of it, but that it was a great way off. 
He told me that he was a native of Tafilet, whither he wished 
to return, but that he was prevented from so doing by his ina- 
bility to walk. He lived with a good M ahometan negro, who 
supplied him with food out of mere charity. The miserable 
condition of this poor creature excited my pity, and I gave 
him a few glass beads. On returning home I told my guide 
that I had seen a Moor who knew my country ; Kai-mou 
