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use of vegetable food produces. A child will 
suck a piece of rock-salt as if it were sugar, and a 
rich man is described by the phrase, he eats salt 
with his victuals. In the towns, which they met 
in succession at the distance of six, eight, or ten 
miles, they were entertained with hospitahty, and 
conducted in safety from one place to another 
with their baggage. Laby, which is 2^ miles in 
circumference, and contains, as they imagined, 
about .5000 people, lies almost due east from Ka- 
cundy, at the distance of 200 miles. Here they 
inquired concerning Cassina and Tombuctoo. 
The route to Cassina was represented as extreme- 
ly dangerous, but a free communication was said 
to subsist between Laby and Tombuctoo, though 
a journey of four months distant from each other. 
The route was described as proceeding through 
six intervening kingdoms, the names of which 
were Beliah, Bowriah, Manda, Segoo, Susundoo, 
and Genah, of which the last was said to be the 
most rich. Segoo is the Sego of Mr Park, the 
capital of Bambarra ; Manda is Manding, and 
Bowriah seems to be Boori, adjacent to Manding ; 
Susundoo is probably Sansanding, whije Genah is 
Genne. At the distance of thirty days journey 
from Teemboo, the road was said to lie along a 
great water^ across which the eye could not reach, 
which was sweet and good to the taste. At Laby, 
the travellers were received with the utmost hos- 
