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fortnight without an instant’s sleep.” To make matters 
worse, the wound broke out afresh. He would have 
been cured neither of it nor of the scurvy had it not 
been for the energetic treatment of an old negress, who 
was accustomed to doctor the scorbutic affections so 
common in that country. 
On the 9th January, 1828, Caillie left Timeh, and 
A VILLAGE SCENE. 
reached Kimba, a little village where the caravan for 
Jenneh was assembled. Near to this village rises the 
chain erroneously called Kong, which is the general 
name for mountain amongst the Mandingoes. 
Jenneh, two miles and a half in circumference, is 
surrounded by a mud wall ten feet high. The houses, 
built of bricks baked in the sun, are as large as those of 
