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runs a small watercourse, now nearly dry, and 
which the natives call the Neerico. 
The inhabitants of this town are all Mahome- 
dans, who are Surra woollies, and came originally 
from Kajaga or Galam : they appeared a mild 
inoffensive race, and were not only better clothed, 
but cleaner in their persons than the people of 
Woolli. Their provisions, also, were in greater 
plenty. We purchased from them three asses, 
three small bullocks, and a goat, together with 
some fowls, milk, butter, and eggs. Latitude of 
Sabee, by meridian altitude, sun's lower limb, 
85° S^' &' ; thermometer, in shade, 14° 10' 58". 
They cultivate, on the banks of the Neerico, 
in moist places, a sort of tobacco, which is of a 
small growth and a pale green colour, bearing a 
yellow blossom : it is manufactured into snuff, 
in which state alone that sort is used. They 
also cultivate a larger kind, more resembling the 
American tobacco in size and colour : this bears 
a white blossom, and when dried is used in 
smoking. These, with millet, maize, two other 
varieties of corn, rice, cotton, indigo, and a few 
small onions and pompions, are the productions I 
noticed here, and for which the ground appeared 
well adapted. 
When we were about moving on the morning 
of the 15th, Masiri Cabba, a man who had come 
from Bondoo to Lamina, and joined us at Ka- 
