48 ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF CAYOR. 
thing assumed an extraordinary form, and there was not a bush 
which I did not take for a house. During- the whole night we 
neither saw nor heard any Uving creature. 
February 9th. Day-Ught, so far from putting an end to our 
fatigues, displayed to our view immense parched plains, where 
we could not distinguish any trace of habitations. About 
noon I directed Boukari's slave to climb a tree, to try if he 
could discover some village ; he declared that he could not see 
any. We then lay down and slept under a tree till four 
o'clock, and afterwards proceeded till sun-set, when we per- 
ceived the fires of Bahene, a small village in the kingdom of 
the Bourb-Joloffs, which we had ontered. We there received 
the same hospitality which we had experienced in the kingdom 
of Cayor. 
The last-mentioned country, which extends from north 
to south, from St. Louis to Rufisque, is one of the most wealthy 
that we know of, in the part of western Africa, comprised 
between the Senegal and Gambia. Formerly Cape Verd was 
comprehended in the dominions of the king of Cayor, but the 
people revolted, and the inaccessible nature of their country, 
which is covered with rocks, has secured to them their inde- 
pendence. 
The soil of the kingdom of Cayor is sandy and of a 
reddish colour, but fertile ; for it produces millet, cotton, and 
indigo in abundance. 
The tamarind, the baobab, the gum tree, and other species 
