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156 PARTICULARS RESPECTING FOUTATORO. 
which is very fine, excellent rice, indigo, and tobacco, which the 
inhabitants use for smoking- only. Water is abundant in most of 
the wells, and it is not necessary to dig deep to find it. The most 
common trees are the o-reVe, the bark of which is covered with sharp 
thorns : its leaves are opposite to each other, and arranged with 
great regularity, but grow only at the extremity of the branches ; 
its wood is used for making porringers. The krede, the wood of 
which is white, serves for making bedsteads. The deraboki is 
a small tree, in colour and form resembling the baobab ; its 
wood is soft, its fruit is put into water to poison lions and 
hyœnas. The guiandam has a fruit resembling coffëe, which 
the Negroes eat roasted, in times of scarcity. The denteculai 
is knotty and of low growth ; its fruit resembles the orange, 
and its flavour approaches that of vanilla ; it contains a great 
number of pips of a green colour, arranged like those of the 
gourd ; the rind of the fruit is so hard, that it is necessary to 
break it with stones ; the fruit occasions cholic. 
Lions, panthers, hysenas, and jackalls, are very common, 
the elephant is more rare ; of birds there is no great 
variety. We meet with some ostriches, vultures in great 
numbers, guinea-fowls, wood-pigeons, ravens, with white necks, 
turtle-doves, partridges, and parroquets with black necks. 
Foutatoro is destitute of gold mines, but enjoys the ines- 
timable advantage of possessing excellent and numerous iron 
mines. The heat of this country is intense, the thermometer 
at noon often rising to ninety-six degrees in the shade. 
