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cattle ; lie had a great many wives, each of whom owned 
a hut of her own, their houses forming a little village, 
with well-cultivated environs. Here Caillie for the first 
time saw the Rhamnus Lotus mentioned by Park. 
On leaving Wassolo, Caillie entered Foulou, whose 
inhabitants, like those of the former district, are idolaters, 
of slovenly habits. They speak the Mandingo tongue. 
At Sambatikala the traveller paid a visit to the almamy. 
“ We entered,” he says, “ a place which served him as 
a bedroom for himself and a stable for his horse. The 
prince’s bed was at the further end. It consisted of a 
little platform raised six inches from the ground, on 
which was stretched an ox-hide, with a dirty mosquito 
curtain, to keep oft’ the insects. There was no other 
furniture in this royal abode. Two saddles hung from 
stakes driven into the wall; a large straw hat, a drum 
only used in war-time, a few lances, a bow, a quiver, 
and some arrows, were the only ornaments. A lamp 
made of a piece of flat iron set on a stand of the same 
metal, stood on the ground. This lamp was fed by a 
kind of vegetable matter, not thick enough to be made 
into candles.” 
The almamy soon informed Caillie of an opportunity 
for him to go to Timeh, whence a caravan was about to 
start for Jenneli. The traveller then entered the pro¬ 
vince of Bambarra, and quickly arrived at the pretty 
little village of Timeh, inhabited by Mohammedan 
Mandingoes, and bounded on the east by a chain of 
mountains about 2,000 feet high. 
Caillie was detained at Timeh, by an unhealed wound 
in his foot, until the 10th November. At that date he 
proposed starting for Jenneh, but was attacked by 
scurvy, and in his own words, “ I was now seized with 
violent pains in the jaws, warning me that I was 
attacked with scurvy, a terrible malady, all the horrors 
of which I was to realise. My palate was completely 
skinned, part of the bone came away, my teeth seemed 
ready to fall out of the gums, my sufferings were 
terrible. I feared that my brain might be affected by 
the agony of pain in my head. I was more than a 
