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the hope of success could alone have enabled me to endure the 
almost incredible ftitigues of the journey. We were inces- 
santly obliged to climb abrupt rocks, the height of which 
seemed to increase the farther we advanced. 
The western breeze which cooled the atmosphere in the 
afternoon rendered the heat less insupportable in that part of 
the day ; but during the night the cold was so sharp among 
these mountains, that we could no longer sleep in the open 
air ; we therefore took up our quarters at Nadeli. 
April 2d. We arrived early at Famére, a village situated 
on a mountain, and constructed entirely of bamboos, on 
account of the scarcity of earth proper for building. After 
taking our repast, we descended the mountain and traversed 
an immense plain watered by several streams. We slept at 
Kauta, situated at the foot of the chain of Tangué or Badon ; 
it extends from the south to the south-east ; its elevation is so 
great, that at the distance from which we beheld it, the trees 
by which it is covered looked like large herbs. 
April 3d. We still kept proceeding southward, and took 
the path used by the flocks. This path, almost impracticable 
for man, had been worn by the rains in the side of the moun- 
tain which we ascended. It was filled with rounded granitoid 
diabase which is very slippery. At the foot of the moun- 
tain were some huts, on the bank of a stream which issued 
from the middle of the chain. The higher we ascended the 
more difhcult was the path ; had it not been for the trees 
