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diff --git a/5305-h/5305-h.htm b/5305-h/5305-h.htm index 877f963..77faded 100644 --- a/5305-h/5305-h.htm +++ b/5305-h/5305-h.htm @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ GO NO FARTHER EASTWARD.</span></h2> related, compelled to leave Sego, I was conducted the same evening to a village about seven miles to the eastward, with some of the inhabitants of which my guide was acquainted, and by whom -we were well received. <a id="citation7"></a><a class="citation pginternal" href="#footnote7">[7]</a> He was very +we were well received. <a id="citation7"></a><a class="citation" href="#footnote7">[7]</a> He was very friendly and communicative, and spoke highly of the hospitality of his countrymen, but withal told me that if Jenné was the place of my destination, which he seemed to have hitherto @@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ village called Sooboo, where, for two hundred kowries, I procured lodging for the night.</p> <p><i>August</i> 14.—I continued my course along the bank of the river, through a populous and well-cultivated -country. I passed a walled town called Kamalia <a id="citation35"></a><a class="citation pginternal" href="#footnote35">[35]</a> without stopping, and at noon rode +country. I passed a walled town called Kamalia <a id="citation35"></a><a class="citation" href="#footnote35">[35]</a> without stopping, and at noon rode through a large town called Samee, where there happened to be a market, and a number of people assembled in an open place in the middle of the town, selling cattle, cloth, corn, &c. I @@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ well was about ten feet in diameter, and so very deep that when I saw my horse snorting in the water I thought it was impossible to save him. The inhabitants of the village, however, immediately assembled, and having tied together a number of -withes, <a id="citation58"></a><a class="citation pginternal" href="#footnote58">[58]</a> they lowered a man down into the well, +withes, <a id="citation58"></a><a class="citation" href="#footnote58">[58]</a> they lowered a man down into the well, who fastened those withes round the body of the horse; and the people, having first drawn up the man, took hold of the withes and, to my surprise, pulled the horse out with the greatest @@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ the blessing of God upon the child and upon all the company. When this prayer was ended he whispered a few sentences in the child’s ear and spat three times in its face, after which he pronounced its name aloud, and returned the -infant to the mother. <a id="citation80"></a><a class="citation pginternal" href="#footnote80">[80]</a> This part of +infant to the mother. <a id="citation80"></a><a class="citation" href="#footnote80">[80]</a> This part of the ceremony being ended, the father of the child divided the dega into a number of balls, one of which he distributed to every person present; and inquiry was then made if any person in the @@ -1957,7 +1957,7 @@ existence of the past moon, and to solicit a continuation of His favour during that of the new one. At the conclusion they spit upon their hands and rub them over their faces. This seems to be nearly the same ceremony which prevailed among the -heathens in the days of Job. <a id="citation82"></a><a class="citation pginternal" href="#footnote82">[82]</a></p> +heathens in the days of Job. <a id="citation82"></a><a class="citation" href="#footnote82">[82]</a></p> <p>Great attention, however, is paid to the changes of this luminary in its monthly course, and it is thought very unlucky to begin a journey, or any other work of consequence, in the last @@ -2196,7 +2196,7 @@ being first dried in the sun and afterwards rubbed with shea butter, to prevent them from contracting fresh moisture. Others of the natives employ themselves in hunting. Their weapons are bows and arrows; but the arrows in common use are not -poisoned. <a id="citation92"></a><a class="citation pginternal" href="#footnote92">[92]</a> They are very dexterous marksmen, +poisoned. <a id="citation92"></a><a class="citation" href="#footnote92">[92]</a> They are very dexterous marksmen, and will hit a lizard on a tree, or any other small object, at an amazing distance. They likewise kill guinea-fowls, partridges, and pigeons, but never on the wing. While the @@ -2209,7 +2209,7 @@ is not fine, but well twisted, and makes a very durable cloth. A woman with common diligence will spin from six to nine garments of this cloth in one year, which, according to its fineness, will sell for a minkalli and a half or two minkallies -each. <a id="citation93"></a><a class="citation pginternal" href="#footnote93">[93]</a> The weaving is performed by the +each. <a id="citation93"></a><a class="citation" href="#footnote93">[93]</a> The weaving is performed by the men. The loom is made exactly upon the same principle as that of Europe, but so small and narrow that the web is seldom more than four inches broad. The shuttle is of the common @@ -2465,7 +2465,7 @@ the universal wish of mankind to spend the evening of their days where they passed their infancy. The poor negro feels this desire in its full force. To him no water is sweet but what is drawn from his own well, and no tree has so cool and pleasant -a shade as the <i>tabba</i> tree <a id="citation104"></a><a class="citation pginternal" href="#footnote104">[104]</a> of his native +a shade as the <i>tabba</i> tree <a id="citation104"></a><a class="citation" href="#footnote104">[104]</a> of his native village. When war compels him to abandon the delightful spot in which he first drew his breath, and seek for safety in some other kingdom, his time is spent in talking about the @@ -2573,7 +2573,7 @@ the adventurer is exactly the same. If he succeeds, he may secure an independency: if he is unsuccessful, his person and services are at the disposal of another; for in Africa, not only the effects of the insolvent, but even the insolvent himself, is -sold to satisfy the lawful demands of his creditors. <a id="citation109"></a><a class="citation pginternal" href="#footnote109">[109]</a></p> +sold to satisfy the lawful demands of his creditors. <a id="citation109"></a><a class="citation" href="#footnote109">[109]</a></p> <p>The fourth cause above enumerated is, <i>the commission of crimes on which the laws of the country affix slavery as a punishment</i>. In Africa the only offences of this class @@ -4569,19 +4569,19 @@ disease. Of the crew, twelve, including the surgeon, had entirely lost their sight; five escaped with an eye each, and four were partially injured.</p> <h2>FOOTNOTES.</h2> -<p><a id="footnote7"></a><a class="footnote pginternal" href="#citation7">[7]</a> I should have before observed that +<p><a id="footnote7"></a><a class="footnote" href="#citation7">[7]</a> I should have before observed that I found the language of Bambarra a sort of corrupted Mandingo. After a little practice, I understood and spoke it without difficulty.</p> -<p><a id="footnote35"></a><a class="footnote pginternal" href="#citation35">[35]</a> There is another town of this +<p><a id="footnote35"></a><a class="footnote" href="#citation35">[35]</a> There is another town of this name hereafter to be mentioned.</p> -<p><a id="footnote58"></a><a class="footnote pginternal" href="#citation58">[58]</a> From a plant called <i>kabba</i>, +<p><a id="footnote58"></a><a class="footnote" href="#citation58">[58]</a> From a plant called <i>kabba</i>, that climbs like a vine upon the trees.</p> -<p><a id="footnote80"></a><a class="footnote pginternal" href="#citation80">[80]</a> Soon after baptism the children +<p><a id="footnote80"></a><a class="footnote" href="#citation80">[80]</a> Soon after baptism the children are marked in different parts of the skin, in a manner resembling what is called <i>tattooing</i> in the South Sea Islands.</p> -<p><a id="footnote82"></a><a class="footnote pginternal" href="#citation82">[82]</a> Chap. xxxi. vv. 26–28.</p> -<p><a id="footnote92"></a><a class="footnote pginternal" href="#citation92">[92]</a> Poisoned arrows are used +<p><a id="footnote82"></a><a class="footnote" href="#citation82">[82]</a> Chap. xxxi. vv. 26–28.</p> +<p><a id="footnote92"></a><a class="footnote" href="#citation92">[92]</a> Poisoned arrows are used chiefly in war. The poison, which is said to be very deadly, is prepared from a shrub called <i>koono</i> (a species of <i>echites</i>), which is very common in the woods. The @@ -4591,12 +4591,12 @@ thread: this thread they fasten round the iron of the arrow in such a manner that it is almost impossible to extract the arrow, when it has sunk beyond the barbs, without leaving the iron point and the poisoned thread in the wound.</p> -<p><a id="footnote93"></a><a class="footnote pginternal" href="#citation93">[93]</a> A minkalli is a quantity of gold +<p><a id="footnote93"></a><a class="footnote" href="#citation93">[93]</a> A minkalli is a quantity of gold nearly equal in value to ten shillings sterling.</p> -<p><a id="footnote104"></a><a class="footnote pginternal" href="#citation104">[104]</a> This is a large, spreading tree +<p><a id="footnote104"></a><a class="footnote" href="#citation104">[104]</a> This is a large, spreading tree (a species of <i>sterculia</i>) under which the bentang is commonly placed.</p> -<p><a id="footnote109"></a><a class="footnote pginternal" href="#citation109">[109]</a> When a negro takes up goods on +<p><a id="footnote109"></a><a class="footnote" href="#citation109">[109]</a> When a negro takes up goods on credit from any of the Europeans on the coast, and does not make payment at the time appointed, the European is authorised by the laws of the country to seize upon the debtor himself, if he can |