332 THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION. 
pitality by the chief subordinate to the king of the 
Foulahs, who offered to send one of his sons to be 
educated in England, and one of the chief Mara- 
bouts seemed inclined to follow his example. 
From Laby, they advanced 72 miles towards the 
interior, and arrived at Teemboo, the capital of 
Foota Jallo, which contains 7000 inhabitants. At 
Teemboo they remained fourteen days, and held 
various conversations with the king, and with 
many of the chiefs, through the intervention of 
their interpreter. The kingdom of Foota Jallo 
is about 350 miles from east to west, and 200 
from north to south. The climate is good, the 
soil is stony and dry ; about one-third is extreme- 
ly fertile, and produces rice and maize, which the 
women cultivate, and the men carry to market, in 
loads of li cwt. which rise four feet above their 
heads. In some of these trading journeys they 
carry provisions along with them for eight weeks. 
Their cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, and goats, 
pasture on the hilly grounds, which contain consi- 
derable quantities of iron stone. They dig and 
manufacture a species of iron, which is extremely 
malleable. The mines are extremely deep, with 
many galleries or horizontal passages, which are 
very long, and in some places high and wide, 
with openings for the admission of air and light. 
They are wrought by women, who carry victuals 
along with them when they descend. At Laby 
