CHAP. V.] 
TARRANGOLLF. 
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to mislead a traveller who is only a superficial 
observer; but from the commencement of the negro 
tribes in N. lat. 12° to Ellyria in lat. 4° 30' I have 
found no specific difference in the people. The actual 
change takes place suddenly on arrival in Latooka, 
and this is accounted for by an admixture with the 
Gallas. 
The Latookas are a fine, frank, and warlike race. 
Far from being the morose set of savages that I had 
hitherto seen, they were excessively merry, and always 
ready for either a laugh or a fight. The town of 
Tarrangolle contained about three thousand houses, 
and was not only surrounded by iron-wood palisades, 
but every house was individually fortified by a little 
stockaded courtyard. The cattle were kept in large 
kraals in various parts of the town, and were most 
carefully attended to, fires being lit every night to 
protect them from flies ; and high platforms, in three 
tiers, were erected in many places, upon which sentinels 
watched both day and night to give the alarm in case 
of danger. The cattle are the wealth of the country, 
and so rich are the Latookas in oxen, that ten or 
twelve thousand head are housed in every large town; 
thus the natives are ever on the watch, fearing the 
attacks of the adjacent tribes. 
The houses of the Latookas are generally bell-shaped, 
