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see best in the night time, when they travel and work, sleeping 
most of the day, because the hght hurts their eyes, which are re- 
markably briUiant. Ivory is plentiful. The Kaylee seems to be a 
dialect of the Sheekan. 
One - - - Woto 
Two > - - Ibba 
Three - - . Battach 
Four - Binnay 
Five - - - Bittan 
Ten - . . D ueoom 
Northward of Kaylee, two journies, is Imbekee, adjoining the 
Moohnda or Danger. One moon distant, in the same direction, 
passing through the countries, Beesoo (three journies from Imbee- 
kee) Aosa, and Hetan, are the larger kingdoms of Badayhee, 
andOongoomo; the King of the latter is Enjukayamoo, and the 
capital Mattadee, described as a very large town. The numerals 
assimilate to those of Kaylee. 
One - - - Wootta 
Two - - - Beeba 
Three - - - Bittach 
Four - - - Binnay 
Five - - - Bitten 
Travelhng (still northward,) through the small states of Oon- 
damee and Bolaykee, in six journies they reach the extensive 
countries of Paamway, and Shay bee, which adjoin each other; and 
on their northern frontier is Bayhee, through which kingdom the 
River Wola or Wole flows ; the largest river they had ever seen or 
heard of, and running eastward. My friend the Governor, always 
impressed on me, that this was the largest river in the world, and 
ran, to use his own words, " farther than any one, except God, 
knows, farther than Indee; all the great rivers in this country come 
from Wole.'' The Moohnda, he had always understood in the long 
course of his enquiries, to flow from it; but he could not speak so 
