TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
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can scarcely add two simple numbers together 
without having recourse to the usual African 
methods, namely, counting the fingers, or mak- 
ing strokes in the sand. The student or scholar 
is, in all cases, the servant of his teacher, who 
may employ him in any menial capacity what- 
ever. They go about, when not at their lessons, 
begging, and sewing the country cloths together, 
for any who may want to employ them : the 
produce of those callings are brought to the 
master, who is always a priest, and appropriated 
to his use. 
The people of Bondoo are a mixture of Foo- 
lahs, Mandingoes, Serrawollies, and JolofFs, re- 
taining, however, more of the manners and cus- 
toms of the first, and speaking their language 
exclusively. They are of the middle size, well 
made, and very active, their skin of a light cop- 
per colour, and their faces of a form approach- 
ing nearer to those of Europe than any of the 
other tribes of Western Africa, the Moors ex- 
cepted. Their hair, too, is not so short or 
woolly as that of the black, and their eyes are, 
with the advantage of being larger and rounder, 
of a better colour, and more expressive. The 
women in particular, who, without the assistance 
of art, might vie, in point of figure, with those 
of the most exquisitely fine form in Europe, are 
of a more lively disposition, and more delicate 
