MINYO RESPECT FOR LEARNING. 
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Gurai, the capital, governed by Minyo or Minyoma. 
Bogussa is the first district under the sway of this 
personage. We have in his name a remarkable 
instance of how in Africa names of cities and coun- 
tries are confounded with those of their provinces. 
Hitherto, I and my interpreter had always taken it 
for granted that Minyo was the name of the capital 
of the province, not of the prince ; so we understood 
from everybody, and only to-day we learn that 
Gurai is the name of the capital, whilst the province 
is called after the name of the prince, i.e. Minyo, or 
Minyoma.* 
Our route this morning lay through a remark- 
ably fine district, teeming with fertility, and requir- 
ing only the hand of industry to render it the rich- 
est country in the world. Not a ten-thousandth 
part of the soil is cultivated. We met a troop of 
schoolboys with their masters; their boards, be- 
daubed with Arabic characters, would have been an 
effectual protection for them against a troop of 
horsemen a thousand times larger than ours. JBut, 
nevertheless, a poor woman, or a girl with a bowl of 
milk or a little butter, could not pass unscathed. 
Such is morality here. May there not, however, be 
some promise in this respect for education ? A 
woodman left his axe a moment on the roadside ; 
* It is worth while leaving this mistake of Mr. Richardson or 
his informants, as an illustration of the great difficulty that exists in 
eliciting accurate facts from natives of Africa and other uncivilised 
countries. — Ed. 
