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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
European peasants. They have all terraces, but no 
outer windows. Numbers of foreigners frequent Jenneh. 
The inhabitants, as many as eight or ten thousand, are 
very industrious and intelligent. They hire out their 
slaves, and also employ them in various handicrafts. 
The Moors, however, monopolise the more important 
commerce. Not a day passes that they do not despatch 
huge boats laden with rice, millet, cotton, honey, vege¬ 
table butter, and other native products. 
In spite of this great commercial movement, the 
prosperity of Jenneh was threatened. Sego Ahmadou, 
chief of the country, impelled by bigoted zeal, made 
fierce war upon the Bambarras of Sego, whom he wished 
to rally round the standard of the Prophet. This 
struggle did a great deal of harm to the trade of Jenneh, 
for it interrupted intercourse with Yarnina, Sansanding, 
Bamakou, and Boureh, which were the chief marts for 
its produce. 
The women of Jenneli would not be true to their sex 
if they did not show some marks of coquetry. Those 
who aim at fashion pass a ring or a glass ornament 
through the nostrils, whilst their poorer sisters content 
themselves with a bit of pink silk. 
During Caillm’s long stay at Jenneh, he was loaded 
with kindness and attentions by the Moors, to whom he 
had told the fabulous tale about his birth in Egypt, and 
abduction by the army of occupation. 
On the 23rd March the traveller embarked on the 
Niger for Timbuctoo, on which the sheriff, won over by 
the gift of an umbrella, had obtained a passage for him. 
He carried with him letters of introduction to the chief 
persons in Timbuctoo. 
Caillie now passed in succession the pretty villages of 
Kera, Taguetia, Sankha-Guibila, Diebeh, and Isaca, near 
to which the river is joined by an important branch, 
which makes a great bend beyond Sego, catching sight 
also of Wandacora, Wanga, Corocoila, and Cona, finally 
reaching, on the 2nd of April, the mouth of the impor¬ 
tant Lake Debo. 
On the 20th, Caillie' disembarked at Cabra, built on a 
