[6]Couscous, a kind of pottage made with millet.
[7]The Tabasky is the last day of the Ramadan: it may be likened to our Easter Sunday.
[8]The Peulhs inhabit Fouta-Toro; they are also called Foulahs.
[9]Or Niegueh.
[10]The carrier-bullock is a particular species. It has a bunch on the back. After it has been castrated, it is accustomed while very young to carry burdens; and to make it the more tractable, a cord is run through its nostrils.
[11]The name given at the Senegal to an arm of the river.
[12]Piastres: at the Senegal five and six franc pieces are called gourdes.
[13]A sort of gruel made of the flour of millet or other grain.
[14]The negroes who inhabit the countries of Cayor, Wâlo, and Ghiolof, are called Wolofs. They all speak the same language, with some modifications in the different countries. This language is understood by the Foulahs of Fouta Toro and their neighbours, the Serreres, as also by the Moors who travel in those parts.
[15]This is the same thing as the bakat of the negroes of Wâlo; it is a holcus, the grain of which nearly resembles our millet—perhaps the holcus sorghum.