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which is furnished with straw, and they are suspended from 
the branches of trees. 
Flowers are so rare, that I know not whence the bees 
can procure their supphes ; nevertheless there are innumerable 
swarms of them ; their honey has a coarse and yet insipid 
taste, very disagreeable to a European who is not accustomed 
to it ; besides it is full of fragments of leaves which give it 
a black colour. 
After having engaged Maka to serve as a guide to Fouta 
Jallon, by means of ten grains of coral, I thought I ought 
not to remain longer in a ^'illage destitute of every kind of 
provisions. At the moment of departure, Boukari had a 
violent quarrel with a Negro, who reproached him for not 
having taken leave of the master of the house ; Boukari, how- 
ever, had given him notice of our departure ; but the principles 
of African politeness require, that a traveller should go in 
person to thank his host for his hospitality. 
Our route again led through woods, where I saw some 
butterflies, but I did not remark one which would have been 
worth placing in a collection. The beautiful butterflies so 
common in the equinoxial regions of America, are on the 
contrary very rare in Negroland. 
The inhabitants were at supper when we entered Bode ; 
men who had eaten nothing the whole day, could not have 
arrived at a more seasonable hour, and the hospitality of an 
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