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comparatively happy. A very small share of field 
labour supplies them over-abundantly with rice, 
corn, and all the other vegetable productions of 
the country ; vast herds of cattle afford them milk, 
butter, and occasionally meat, and what with 
their poultry and game, they are seldom without 
some addition to their cous-cous. 
They do not cultivate as large a quantity of 
cotton as their Bondoo neighbours, but are well 
supplied with clothing both by them and the 
French merchants at Senegal, in their commu- 
nications with whom they have invariably acted 
with the most base self-interestedness and du- 
plicity, not unfrequently terminating their dif- 
ferences in the assassination of a master of a small 
vessel, or the plunder of his cargo. 
Here again does the pernicious effect of the 
Mahomedan faith make itself evident ; for those 
people are taught by their priests to regard the 
murder of an infidel, or the destruction of his 
property, as a meritorious act in the eyes of their 
prophet : — but of this in another place. 
We left Samba Jamangele at two o'clock on 
the morning of the 21st of June, and after a 
most fatiguing march of eight hours we reached 
a small village called Bunjuncole, where we 
halted until half after two. 
We were hospitably received by the chief of 
the village, whose wife, having been a concubine 
