TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 103 runs a small watercourse, now nearly dry, and which the natives call the Neerico.

The inhabitants of this town are all Mahomedans who are Surrawoollies, and came originally from Kajaga or Galam : they appeared a mild inoffensive race, and were not only better clothed, but cleaner in their persons than the people of WoolU. Their provisions, also, were in greater plenty. We purchased from them three asses, three small bullocks, and a goat, together with some fowls, milk, butter, and eggs. Latitude of Sabee, by meridian altitude, sun's lower limb, 85° 22' &' ; thermometer, in shade, 14° 10' 58".

They cultivate, on the banks of the Neerico, in moist places,,a sort of tobacco, which is of a small growth and a pale green colour, bearing a yellow blossom : it is manufactured into snuff, in which state alone that sort is used. They also cultivate a larger kind, more resembling the American tobacco in size and colour : this bears a white blossom, and when dried is used in smoking. These, with millet, maize, two other varieties of corn, rice, cotton, indigo, and a few small onions and pompions, are the productions I noticed here, and for which the ground appeared well adapted.

When we were about moving on the morning of the 15th, Masiri Cabba, a man who had come from Bondoo to Lamina, and joined us at Ka-