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process, they forge the iron, and form it into bars eight inches 
long. 
The chief of the village received us in his hut, which was 
large and built of bamboos ; the interior was painted yellow 
with l)lack stripes. Our host after having supplied me with 
milk, took from his pocket two small loaves made of maize 
and honey, and offered them to me. Since my detention at 
Niebel I had had nothing to appease my hunger but a few 
handfuls of pounded pistachio-iuits, and these loaves, simply 
dried in the sun, without having been baked in an oven, 
appeared exquisite. The chief of Languebana did not confine 
himself to these attentions ; he supplied our beasts with fodder, 
and absolutely insisted on keeping me at his house till the 
next day ; thus what Boukari had told me, that in a long 
journey we frequently meet with good as well as ill-treatment 
was soon verified. IS otwithstanding the pressing intreaties of 
our host, we resumed our journey. Our route still lay among 
the mountains, and it was not without excessive fatigue, that 
ni the evening we reached Landaumari, a village built on the 
summit of a hill of great height, and so steep, that the people 
have been obliged to make a zigzag road to ascend to it. My 
horse slipped his foot into a cleft of the rocks, and unless we 
had taken the greatest precautions, his efforts to disengage 
himself would have rolled him down the precipices by which 
we were surrounded. 
April 1st. We continued our progress towards the south ; 
