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CHAPTER XL 
Description of the Plain of Hourey — Occurrences there — 
Departure and Arrival at Baquelle — Unfavourable Ac- 
counts from Mr. Dochard — Kingdom of Galam. 
The village of Samba Jamangele, which is of 
considerable extent, is one of many which com- 
pose the district of Hourey, and is, with all the 
others, situate in an extensive plain of that 
name, the view of which is finely terminated in 
the south and west by a range of hills covered 
with wood. To the north are a few isolated hills, 
and to the east the eye loses itself over a gently 
undulating surface of some miles thinly sprinkled 
with large trees. 
The inhabitants, whose numbers do not ex- 
ceed 3000, are descended from the Foolahs 
(who some years since possessed themselves of 
that country) and such of the former proprietors 
and their vassals as embraced the Mahomedan 
faith. They are governed byBayla, who is a priest 
and a minister of the council of Foota, which is a 
sort of republic, headed by an almamy, but who 
reigns only during the pleasure of the council, 
and it is not at all uncommon to see this chief 
changed two or three times within one year. 
These people have every appearance of being 
