[56]A Mandingo who has eight or ten slaves is reckoned rich.

[57]Télé, day, sun.

[58]See the Mandingo vocabulary.

[59]Charms, like the grigris.

[60]The Arabic word for soap is saboun.

[61]I trust I shall be pardoned for this misrepresentation, for, had I admitted the liberty of worship, there were some among my interrogators who would have been acute enough to ask me why I had undertaken so toilsome a journey, since I could freely exercise my religion among a people, who, according to my own account had treated me very kindly.

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