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THE POULAS OF KABOU. 
are inclined to theft, insolent, inhospitable, and avaricious. 
They are possessed of considerable wealth, which they owe 
to their industry and commercial spirit. Most of these 
Mandingos are Pag-ans, as well as the Poulas who inhabit 
the foulakondas, (Foula villag-es,) dependent on the Man- 
dingo villages. 
These Poulas who, I believe, came from Salum, are good 
husbandmen, and it is to them that application must be made 
for corn or other provisions, and even game ; for they are 
very skilful hunters. They make brandy with fermented 
honey ; from the immense quantity of wax which the Portu- 
guese purchase of them, I conjecture that bees must be very 
common. The huts, in the villages inhabited by these Poulas, 
are ranged in two rows, and form a wide long street. All these 
villages make war upon one another, and the prisoners are 
sold at Geba. 
This Portuguese establishment, in the country of the 
Saussais Mandingos, is situated sixty leagues to the north-east 
of Bissao, a Portuguese fort on the sea-coast. Geba is a 
village entirely composed of mud houses ; there is no fort ; 
some black soldiers cause respect to be paid to the government, 
which is supported by mildness rather than by actual force. 
Bounded on the south by a marshy river, and on the 
east by mountains, it is perhaps one of the most unhealthy 
spots on the face of the globe. I saw but three Europeans 
there, but their faces were so emaciated by the pernicious 
