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red ; this bundle is their God. The inhabitants of one village 
make incursions upon those of another, and friend will sell 
his friend. 
April 11th. We entered a less mountainous and stony 
country than that through which we had travelled the pre- 
ceding days ; we saw, however, some high mountains to the 
west ; the Rio Grande ran from the same side. The town of 
Labbé was to the south-east. We proceeded without stopping 
till two o'clock, in order to reach Toulou ; for in Fouta Jallon 
travellers do not halt during the great heat of the day ; but at 
the village where they rest they remain for the night. Toulou is 
one of the most agreeable places I have met with ; each of the 
inhabitants encloses his house and his field, when it is not 
too large, with the same fence formed of large euphorbias, 
which are said to be poisonous. Having broken off some pieces, 
I saw the milky juice which characterizes the family, run 
from them. These different enclosures are separated from 
each other, by a space sufficiently large to servie as a street. 
The huts are very regularly built, and six feet high ; two doors 
placed opposite to each other, keep up a current of air, which 
cools the interior ; the floor of earth hardened by the sun, is 
ornamented by designs according to the taste of the proprietor; 
the hut is swept and scoured every day, and for the sake of 
cleanliness no person is allowed to spit in it. 
Grass is so rare in the environs of this village, that ni 
the cold season (as the blacks call it) they feed their cattle 
