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bouk, k not that which contains the gold mines, which I shail 
afterwards speak of. 
The prince received him with marked attention, and waited 
on him at his hut, accompanied by all his courts he told him he. 
was the protector of travel levs, and desired him to inform his 
countrymen, that he wished them often to visit hio^. The next 
day, the 2d, he proceeded on his journey, when the king 
gave him an ox, and Rubauit returned the compliment by a piece 
of Guinea. On that day and the third, he passed through the 
villages of Caffime, Cambalot, and Caldenne, at which he 
stopped to procure a supply of provisions. He observed thal- 
the mhabitants of this village were all dyers, and that they made 
a quantity of indigo; their lands were highly cultivated, and 
were covered in many parts v^ ith gum-trees, as well us with tiie 
species which produces incense, aloes, and mastic. The Negroea 
are but little acquaiiited with the value of these pFoductions; h'Ai 
Rubauit considers them if properly collected;, aa an inexhausti- 
ble source of riches. 
Tl )e incense is a kind of gum. These two substances, though 
of a dilTerent nature, are obtained at the same period, by differ- 
ent processes, from the trees.which produce them : the latter 'dW> 
are very much alike. That which gives the incense is very full 
of branches, which are slender, flexible, and covered with prickles; 
they have a thin adherent bark, of a grey colour; their leaves are 
longhand narrow, always green, and coupled, though each shoot 
is terminated by a single leaf. The pedicle is red and tolerably 
strong. Oil rubbing them between the haads, they give out mi 
unctuous hquid of a strong and aromatic smell, and rather uxi 
acrid taste. A great quantity of these shrubs are found near the 
gum-tree:i m the desert, as well as on most spots in this part of 
Ainca. The greatest consumption of incense takes place m our 
churches ; it is also used in medicine. The substance called 
aloes is also sought for in the isles of the Red- Sea, though it may 
be more readily obtained on the coasts, and in the interior of 
AV^estern Africa. The Indians make much use of this resin as a 
powerful catftartic. Mastic is also obtained in great quantities, 
and the apothecaries employ the pulverised wood of the trees 
which produce it, in their compositions. 
The people of the state of Bambouk are rigid Mahometans, 
and their government is hereditary and absokite. 
On theôlh of February, at four in the morning, after a journey 
of two hours, Rubauit entered the kingdom of Youly, and ar- 
rived at noon at the village of Cambia> the whole of which Vvas 
surrounded vvitli a palisadoe ten feet in height. Here the master 
gave him a good dmner, and in two hours afterw^ards, he reached 
the village of Lamcemo^ where he pa;^sed the night. The next • 
