386 THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION. 
tercourse allowed between Teemboo and Sierra 
Leone. The houses of Sayoua, ope of the Suzee 
towns through which they passed, were even su- 
perior to those of Teemboo. The travellers were 
attended to Sierra Leone by several considerable 
men, who came as ambassadors from the Foulahs 
and other tribes, who, after arranging some com- 
mercial plans, returned highly gratified with their 
reception. 
In the kingdoms possessed by the Foulahs, the 
rural and domestic economy, as well as the man- 
ners, religion, and government, are almost the 
same as in Foota Jallo. Even on the banks of the 
Gambia, the Foulahs raise the greater part of the 
corn, and their cattle are better and more numer- 
ous than those of the Mandingoes. They are so 
expert in the breeding and management of cattle, 
that the Mandingoes generally entrust theirs to 
their care. They render them tame and tracta- 
ble by kindness and familiarity ; feed them by 
day in the w^oods and savannahs, and by night se- 
cure them in folds strongly fenced, round which 
fires are kept burning by the herdsmen, who re- 
main in a hut erected in the middle, to guard 
them from wild beasts and robbers. They make 
considerable quantities of butter ; but, like all the 
other inhabitants of Africa, are entirely ignorant 
of the art of making cheese. Their aversion to 
innovation, the heat of the climate, and the scar- 
