THE COUNTRY OF GALAM. 289 
the whole crew, even to the lowest sailor, is abundantly 
fiirnislied with every necessary without paying for it. Gun- 
powder and fire-arms are the articles they prefer, because 
they are great hunters : as iron abounds in their country, it 
is not carried to them. The country of Galam is one of the 
most fertile in Africa ; millet [holciis saccharatus) rice, maize, 
tobacco, cotton, indigo, grow there almost without culture ; 
milk, cattle, and fish, form the principal food of the Serra- 
colets. 
Camelopards are common in the country of Galam, it is 
even said that the Moors have herds of them ; the Serracolets 
frequently offer their skins to travellers. Lions are numerous ; 
the herdsmen, I am told, employ the whip alone to drive 
them away ; thus the king of animals often runs from 
a child. The Negroes assert, that if they had a gun in 
their hands, the lion would prepare for the combat, and 
dispute the victoiy in a manner worthy of his courage ; 
several have even assured me, that they have often passed 
near this terrible animal, without his even deigning to cast a 
look at them. The forests are filled with wild boars of pro- 
digious size ; the waters of the Senegal in the country of 
Galam, also nourish enormous beasts not inferior in strength 
to any of those which live on land. Woe to the canoe which 
crossing a shallow, passes over the back of a sleeping hippo- 
potamus ; the furious monster wakes but to destroy the bark ; 
this animal, however, is herbivorous : the crocodile, with not 
