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they immediately rode off, and, as I subsequently learnt, returned 
to Zegzeg, and informed the king that I was on my way to F unda 
with two asses, loaded with riches, and a beautiful horse, as pre- 
sents to the king of that place. 
8th. — At eight in the morning left Nammaleek, and keeping in 
a south-west direction, at the foot of a range of mountains, per- 
ceived an opening, and went through it at about twelve. Our 
course then lay more easterly, and crossing one large and three 
small rivers, whose names I could not learn, arrived at Fullindusliie, 
the frontier town in Catica. On our journey to-day, we met, on 
their way to Zegzeg, as a tax to sultan Bello, from a neighbouring 
country, thirty slaves, men, women, and children, all apparently ill 
with the small-pox. The men were tied to each other by the neck 
with twisted bullocks’ hide ; but the women and children were at 
liberty. The inhabitants of Fullindusliie were the first people I 
had seen in Africa who disdained to make use of any kind of dress. 
They laughed immoderately on seeing me; whilst I, on my part, 
made myself quite merry at their expense. They were soon on 
the most familiar footing with me, and seem an artless and good- 
humoured people ; but disgusting in their manners, and filthy in 
their persons : their sheep, goats, and poultry eat and sleep in the 
same hut with them, and a most intolerable stench is exhaled from 
all their dwellings. They do not appear to have the least affection 
for their offspring : a parent will sell his child for the merest trifle 
in the world, with no more remorse or repugnance than he would 
a chicken. They invariably wear a large piece of blue glass, in the 
shape of a semicircle, in their upper and lower lip ; and a piece of 
red wood, about the size of a man’s thumb, dangles from their ears. 
They rub red clay, softened with an oil extracted from the guinea- 
nut, over their heads and bodies, which by no means improves their 
appearance. Their features do not resemble in any way those of 
the Negro, but are fine and handsome, and bear great similitude to 
