f)2 Dr. schotte’s Defer Iption of a 
and language, though not entirely in religious matters ; fo 
many of the Mandingas are Mahometans, which the Bam- 
baras are not. Their languages refemble one another fo nearly 
that a Bambara from Galam, and a Mandinga from the king- 
dom of Barrah, which extends from the fea coaft along the 
north-fide of part of the river Gambia, can partly underdand 
one another. Both nations have alfo a cuftom of marking 
their children in various manners by incifions in the Ikin, and 
that of filing their fore teeth (incifores) till they become quite 
pointed, which I imagine they confider as being handfome. 
As the difeafe, according to the information I. received, be»- 
gins with a gradual {welling of the tedicles without any pain 
or inflammation, I am inclined to confider it as a farcocele. 
heisteh, in his Surgical Inditutions, fays, that the difeafe 
begins and increafes modly in the fame manner, when it 
affeCts the tedicles themfelves ; but that he never faw any of 
them much bigger than a man’s fid:. This difference in the 
fize does, in my opinion not', alter the difeafe ; for w r e know r , 
that the Bronchocele is hardly known in fome countries, that 
it is of a moderate fize in fome others, and that in others again 
it has been leen to increafe to fuch an enormous bulk as to 
hang dowm over the bread: and belly ; yet this difference of fize 
does not alter the nature of the difeafe, and it dill retains the 
lame name. 
It is difficult to point out the caufes of fuch a farcocele, „ 
as confids in the fpontaneous tumefaction of the tedicles 
themfelves ; neither do I find any fatisfactory ones afiigned by 
the author I have jud now quoted ; and as I have not been in 
Galam, I can hardly fay any thing probable concerning thofe of 
the difeafe I have deferibed, I. fhall, however, fugged the 
following. 
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