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KANBABOLE — KIKIORE. 
composed of granite, and extend from Kadé to those of Fouta 
Diallon, which they again join in the south-east. Before 
eight o'clock in the morning we were at Kanbabolé, three 
leagues distant from Corabade. My fever never left me 
during the day, and at night a dysentery allowed me but a few 
moments of repose ; it is really a miracle that I survived. 
Notwithstanding the state of exhaustion to which I was 
reduced, we quitted Kanbabolé on the 2d of July. We did 
not meet with hospitality at Kankoly, because all the inhabi- 
tants were absent, occupied with their agricultural labours ; I 
was therefore obliged, notwithstanding my extreme lassitude, 
to proceed to a foidakonda, or village inhabited by Pagan 
Poulas. The abundance which prevails wherever these 
pastoral people are established, made us forget the hardships 
we had so long suffered. On the 3d, continuing to pursue 
a north-west direction, we reached Kikiore, where they 
brought me the most detestable ragout that had yet been set 
before me ; it was composed of the kernels of different fruits, 
bruised and boiled. On the 4th, we met with a Poula from 
Kadé, who was very useful to us in finding the ford of a very 
rapid torrent which we were obliged to cross. Beyond this 
torrent we lost sight of the mountains ; the country is ex- 
tremely level ; we now observed but a very small number of 
stones on the surface of the soil. Tenda, therefore, as the 
reader will perceive, nearly resembles in appearance the 
country of the Joloffs ; it is, however, less elevated and less 
