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diabase. On quitting its banks we ascended the mountains 
which surrounded us ; their sides were enamelled with flowers • 
of the purest white, which exhaled a perfume similar to the 
blossom of the orange tree. On these heights we saw but three 
huts, in one of which we received hospitality. 
April 13th. Our host was a shoe-maker, who was very 
useful to us in repairing our shoes, which were already in a 
very bad state from the length of our journey. This business 
having detained us some time, we set off rather late, and had 
to endure the heat of the day during our journey. I forgot this 
additional fatigue on entering Cambaia. 
The streets of this village were shaded by orange-trees, 
the blossoms of which embalmed the atmosphere ; I naturally 
formed a favourable idea of this place, and my expectations " 
were not disappointed ; there was abundance of every thing. 
For a grain of amber I bought thirty pounds of rice, and 
thirty oranges. 
We had turned to the north-west for the purpose of 
visiting the sources of the Gambia and of the Rio Grande ; 
this object attained, we resumed the south-eastern direction on 
leaving Cambaia, and at a little distance from that place 
passed the night in a rMwi»f/e near the road ; it is thus they 
term the villages in which the Poulas of Fouta Jallon assemble 
their slaves. They hve there under the superintendence of 
one of their comrades. Each nmbdé bears the name of the 
village to which it belongs. 
