378 Account of the Death of Mr. Mungo Park. [Nov. 



a bullock ; on the third day the King's people came there, the vil- 

 lage gave them a bullock and a sheep, which 1 killed myself; they 

 gave me a quarter of each for my provisions. On my arrival there, 

 I thanked God for my escape. This village is surrounded by a 

 large mud wall, and is well fortified. I presume the village to be 

 well secured against any attack. 



Found one of the hogs so large and fat that I could not carry it 

 any further, and was obliged to leave it there. I told the Chief of 

 the village, who did not wish to keep the hog, that I found it diffi- 

 cult to carry it any further, that I would leave it with him, and he 

 might do with it what he pleased, for the village belongs to my 

 King, so did the hog, and that I was sure he would take good care 

 of it. Departed early ; arrived at noon at Fabougou ; left it after 

 dinner; arrived after sun-set at Giongoey; staid there two days ; 

 departed early, and arrived at ten a. m. under a tree before a lake 

 called Son-ni ; crossed the lake; stopped awhile at Ionniguita; 

 arrived at Gommentora, where we spent the night ; received a 

 sheep ; departed next morning ; arrived at ten a. m. at Wattre ; 

 went on in the evening ; passed a large open field, dangerous for 

 travellers, on account of the Moors passing very often there ; tra- 

 velled the rest of the day and all the night ; arrived about three 

 a. m. at Toucha. On my way from Gommentora to Toucha there 

 is a tree grown on the top of a dried stump of another large tree, 

 the wood of which is employed in the composition of our gun- 

 powder ; there is a rock near that tree forming a kind of a pyramid, 

 and a large rock standing on the top of the pyramid. On my arrival 

 at Toucha found that the case the Chief, Governor Maxwell, had 

 given ine, which contained some looking-glasses, beads, my fine 

 shirts, and my wife's bracelets, and which was carried by my 

 nephew, was missing. 1 asked the boy where it was. He told me 

 that, being fatigued on the road, he had given it to a man who had 

 followed them from Iocha ; and that the man must have stolen it, 

 as he did not see him go. 



Left my family ; received there next morning ten moules corn ; 

 went to Camicon at noon ; received a sheep, milk, and corn ; the 

 Chief named Fiong ; departed in the evening, and passed Sidong; 

 arrived at sun-set at Sannanba ; slept there ; at which village 1 had 

 left my wife and sister on my voyage with Mungo Park ; found 

 them there on my way to Senegal, where they had waited my 

 return the whole time. I said to them, You are my wife and my 

 sister; tell me if you have heard any thing of Mungo Park. My 

 wife told me that she saw Athagi Beraim, who told her that Mungo 

 Park had died in the country of Douissa, and that he had seen the 

 boat in which he was when he died. Yammi Marabout gave me a 

 bullock ; so did Moullini and Guiniba ; Facow, the Chief, gave me 

 one also, with corn ; received two sheep from Alhagi, one ditto 

 from Fatime Boubou, one ditto from Amadi Bini Doucoura, three 

 ditto from Dimba tSoumare. 



The ninth day after my arrival there the hog I had left behind 



