a Negro nation occupying the country between the rivers of Senegal and Gambia. They are a laborious people, cultivate their lands with care, are plentifully supplied with all the necessaries of life, and inhabit handsome and well built villages; their houses, of a circular form, are for the most part terraced; the others are covered with reeds as at Senegal: they are inclosed with a mud wall a foot thick, and the villages are surrounded with one of flone and earth of double that solidity. There are several gates, which are guarded at night for fear of a surprize. This na- tion is remarkably brave, so that it is very uncommon to find a Saracolet slave. The religious principles of this people are nearly allied to Mahometanism, and still more to natural religion. They acknowledge one God; and believe that those who steal, or are guilty of any crime, are eternally punished. They admit a plurality of wives, and believe their souls to be immortal like their own. The extent of this country is unknown. It is governed by four powerful princes, all bearing the name of Fouquet. The least considerable, according to the testimony of the Saracolets, is that of Tuago, who can assemble 30,000 horse, and whose subjects occupy a territory two hundred leagues in extent, as well on the Senegal as on the tract that reaches beyond the Felou; a rock which, according to the same report, forms catacombs, from whence proceed the Senegal and the river Gambia, equally considerable.