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to men who were blinded to such a degree by superstition ! 
For my part, as my religion had not enjoined me to be so 
scrupulous, I requested the Pagan to smoke-dry a part of the 
meat, and make me a bottle of the skin. My strength and 
spirits began to revive at the mere sight of the feast I was about 
to enjoy, which shewed what ascendancy the body sometimes 
exercises over the mind. My guides, though pinched with 
hunger, looked at me while eating without manifesting the 
least disposition to violate their oath. When I found myself 
recruited, we resumed our journey. We first crossed the 
river Jelata, which runs eastward, and discharges itself 
into the Gambia. The route among the mountains was still 
very fatiguing. We stopped at Foundatani. The Negro by 
whom we were received gave us a plentiful supper, but no 
other lodging than his court, and no other bed than the bare 
ground. 
April 7th. The good repast of the preceding evening 
had restored to Boukari and Boubou all their former strength ; 
we therefore departed before sun-rise. The roads by which 
we travelled were the more difficult, because the inhabitants 
of these mountains, instead of removing the stones which 
cover them, even throw and leave in the way the trees which 
they cut down in the woods. We forded the river Pore 
Coura which joins the Gambia. The lofty and tufted trees 
that shade the banks of this river, were covered wdth large 
monkeys four feet high, which barked as loud as they could 
