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is by no means so great as in Europe. The Foulahs use the milk chiefly as an article of diet, and that, not until it is quite sour. The cream which it affords is very thick, and is converted into butter by stirring it violently in a large calabash. This butter, when melted over a gentle fire, and freed from impurities, is preserved in small earthen pots, and forms a part in most of their dishes ; it serves likewise to anoint their heads, and is bestowed very liberally on their faces and arms. But although milk is plentiful, it is somewhat remarkable that the Foulahs, and indeed all the inhabitants of this part of Africa, are totally unacquainted with the art of making cheese. A firm attachment to the customs o f their ancestors, makes them view with an eye of prejudice every thing that looks like innovation. The heat of the climate, and the great scarcity of salt, are held forth as unanswerable objections ; and the whole process appears to them too long and troublesome, to be attended with any solid advantage. Besides the cattle, which constitute the chief wealth of the Foulahs, they possess some excellent horses, the breed of which seems to be a mixture of the Arabian with the original African. CHAPTER V. Account of Kajaag a— Serawoollies— their Manners and Language. — Account of Joag.— The Author is ill treated, and robbed of half of his Effects,by Order ofBatcheri, the King.— Charity of a female Slave.— The Author is visited by Demba Sego, Nephew of the King of Kasson, who offers to conduct him in safety to that K i n g d o m .— Offer accepted— The Author and his Protector, with a numerous Retinue, set out and reach Samee, on the Banks of the Senegal— Proceed to Kayee, and crossing the Senegal, arrive in the Kingdom of Kasson. T he kingdom of Kajaaga, in which I was now arrived, is called by the French, Gallam ; but the name that I have adopted is universally used by the natives. This country is bounded on the south-east and south by Bambouk ; on the west by Bondou and Foota Torra ; and on the north by the river Senegal. The air and climate are, I believe, more pure.and salubrious than at any of the settlements towards the coast; the face of the country is every where interspersed with a pleasing variety of hills and vallies; and the windings of the Senegal river, which descends from the rocky hills of the interior, make the scenery on its banks very picturesque and beautiful. The inhabitants are called Serawoollies, or (as the French write it) Seracolets. Their complexion is a jet black : they are not to be distinguished in this respect from the Jaloffs.


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