TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
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sions, and neither acknowledging the supremacy 
of the other, although formerly, and of right, it 
belonged to the former, near which are the 
ruins of Fort St. Joseph. The succession to the 
crown is not hereditary ; it descends in a regular 
line to the eldest branch of a numerous family 
called Batcheries, who are the undisputed chiefs 
of the country. 
The face of the country is very mountain- 
ous, and much covered with wood, a large 
proportion of which is well adapted to common 
uses. Its vegetable productions are the same as 
those of Bondoo, from which country it differs 
in nothing save its proximity to the river, and its 
partial inundation during the season of the rains. 
The commerce, like that of Bondoo, consists 
in the exchange of the productions of the 
country for European goods. Those are again 
exchanged with their neighbours of Kaarta, 
Kasson, and Bambouk, for gold, ivory, and slaves, 
who are in their turn sold to the French vessels 
from Senegal. 
Their manufactures, although nearly the same 
as those of their neighbours, have the advantage 
of them in some respects, particularly that of 
weaving and dyeing the cotton ; and whether it 
be that the humidity of the soil on the banks of 
the river is more congenial to the growth of the 
