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He remained a month at Kankan, which contains about 6000 inhabitants, and has a well-supplied market. To the north of it lies the district of Boure, which abounds in gold. He then came to Time, the country around which is fertile, producing many different species of fruits and vegetables. M. Caillie was here detained by illness for five months.
His fatal second expedition produced an unfinished journal, which, however, gives the amplest and most interesting notices concerning the gold-production of the region he traversed. The traveller Caillié , after crossing the Niger en route to Tinbukhtu, passed south of the Bouré province, in the valley of the Great River; and here he reports an abundance of gold.
One hundred miles below, at Boure, were rich gold mines within twenty miles of the Niger. In the dry season, he found its waters very cold and waist-deep. Caillié travelled by narrow paths impervious to horses or carriages, and with a party of natives bearing merchandise on their heads.