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seen me and my servants at Koolfu, are in the habit of mounting 
some trees growing on a small hill close to and overlooking my 
house and court-yard, to get another and a last look : party came 
after party until sunset, when they went away. 
My landlady, the widow Laddie, also accompanied me to Kufu, 
where she remained all night. I thought it had been out of a 
great regard for me ; hut I was soon let into the secret, by five 
of her slaves arriving with booza and bum, which she began selling 
in my court-yard to the different merchants, bullock-drivers, and 
slaves assembled here, who are going to the eastward. 
The village of Kufu is walled, and only about two musket shots 
from the other walled village, which is to the south, and with 
whom they are at heavy war. The space between is generally oc- 
cupied by the caravans bound to the eastward, who usually halt 
here for a week to complete their purchases at the market of 
Koolfu before they start. The country around has a rich and clay 
soil, planted with indigo, cotton, Indian corn, and yams. 
Tuesday, 20th. — Having given the head man of Kufu thirty 
Gora nuts, with which he was well pleased, and loaded the bullocks, 
horse, ass, and camel, at 6 A. M. left Kufu. The path, or road, 
through a woody country : the trees consisting mostly of the mi- 
radania, or butter tree, which does not grow to a large size ; the 
largest only about the size of our apple trees in Europe, and this 
only seldom : their girth is not above two or three feet. The 
path was winding ; the soil a deep red clay, covered with a thin 
layer of sand. 
Wednesday, 21st. — After passing a great number of towns and 
villages, we arrived at a walled town called Bullabulla, where we 
encamped outside. As soon as my tent was pitched, I was sur- 
rounded by the inhabitants. They were quite amused with my 
hat ; and the women soon found that I was a stranger, and no 
Moslem, and charged me three times as much for any thing I 
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