Most Of The
Slaves Who Are Sold At Kancaba Come From Bambarra; For Mansong, To
Avoid The Expense And Danger
Of keeping all his prisoners at Sego,
commonly sends them in small parties to be sold at the different
trading
Towns; and as Kancaba is much resorted to by merchants it is
always well supplied with slaves, which are sent thither up the
Niger in canoes. When Karfa departed from Kamalia he proposed to
return in the course of a month, and during his absence I was left
to the care of a good old bushreen, who acted as schoolmaster to the
young people of Kamalia.
CHAPTER XX - NEGRO CUSTOMS
The whole of my route, both in going and returning, having been
confined to a tract of country bounded nearly by the 12th and 15th
parallels of latitude, the reader must imagine that I found the
climate in most places extremely hot, but nowhere did I feel the
heat so intense and oppressive as in the camp at Benowm, of which
mention has been made in a former place. In some parts, where the
country ascends into hills, the air is at all times, comparatively
cool; yet none of the districts which I traversed could properly be
called mountainous. About the middle of June the hot and sultry
atmosphere is agitated by violent gusts of wind (called tornadoes),
accompanied with thunder and rain. These usher in what is
denominated "the rainy season," which continues until the month of
November. During this time the diurnal rains are very heavy, and
the prevailing winds are from the south-west.
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