374 Account of the Death of Mr. Mungo Park. [No*. 



When I was sure of his departure, I sent another courier to 

 Guicha, and told him, on his arrival at Guicha, to go and see 

 Madeguigou Marabout, who will introduce you to Sabiti, and give 

 him seven grains amber ; and tell him, Sabili, to go and tell the 

 King his master that wherever I go I meet some of his people, who 

 make me stop at one place or the other ; and that my intention is 

 positively to go to him. My courier came back to me the next day, 

 unci said that Sabiti let me know that the King his master's will and 

 pleasure is that I should stay where I was that day, and come to him 

 the next day ; which I did accordingly. Next day the King sent 

 me a messenger, to order me to go to him. I left my family and 

 all my friends there, and went with three horsemen and four foot, 

 and went on. I had sent before me a courier, with five grains of 

 the largest amber, No. 1, with orders to wait there for me. Arrived 

 about three p. m. on Tuesday at the back of the village of Guicha; 

 I was met by the boy I had sent before me with the five grains of 

 amber, who said to me in the ear, " Where are you going ; we are 

 betrayed ; do not say you are going to Scgo, for our lives depend on 

 it." I told him I was sent by the Governor of Senegal to Sego, 

 and to Sego I must go, unless I am stopped by death or force, and 

 that I would not deny it. I then entered the village, and went 

 straight to the King's door, followed by the King's messenger, who 

 had followed me from Woussaba. Before the King's door I 

 alighted ; his messenger told me to stop, and wait there ; he went 

 in. and came back immediately, and told me the King was asleep. 

 The King's Guards took possession of me, and lodged me in the 

 guard- room with them, along with my people : this was about sun- 

 set. Not a single soul came to see me, not even my nearest rela- 

 tions, except a Griot woman, who came to comfort me in my 

 distress. This Griot woman, immediately on leaving me, went to 

 the messengers, which I learnt afterwards of Sego, and said, Oh 

 me ! my back is broke. The messengers asked her, How ? She 

 said, Because Isaaco i.-. here, and they are goiug to kill him. Not 

 learning any thing from Sabiti, Chief of the slaves, I sent my same 

 boy to Madiguigou i.iarabout, to be introduced to Sabiti, and give 

 him the five grains of amber. I sent another man to my landlord, 

 where I always resided when in that village, to tell him, with my 

 compliments, my surprise at not seeing him since my arrival. He 

 sent me word that be was happy to hear of my arrival, as nobody 

 had before informed him of it. 



Not being well guarded in the night, I sent the man who was 

 advised to withdraw Ids goods from mine to the Sego messengers, and 

 inform them of my being there ; went in the night to my landlord, 

 and gave him one of my women's necklace, with nine grains amber 

 and seven grains coral. From thence I went to Madiguigou Mara- 

 bout, and told him 1 was sent on a mission to the Kirg of Scgo 

 with some papers, in order to facilitate my journey in search of a 

 white man, who had gone in the interior of this country long ago. 

 From thence I went to Sabiti, and told him the same thing. After- 



