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will give you 200 bars. He said, How can the governor give me 

 that sum being so far from me. I said, He is from you here it is 

 true, but I am here to represent him : he then accepted my offer. 



I arrived there the llth day of the moon, and staid to the end 

 of it. The king killed me a bullock. The first day of the moon,, 

 beiug the day I intended to depart, the prince of Toomboucoutou 

 came to Sego ; the king went out to meet him ; he said to die 

 king, that he came to let him know (he being a friend of Man- 

 chong) that he was coining here to get the wife promised him. 

 The king said to him, Why have you permitted the people of your 

 county to plunder a caravan belonging to my county, and did not 

 prevent it? (My landlord lost in that caravan /00 grains of gold 

 and one slave.) And why did you yourself plunder another caravan 

 of mine ? When the king came out of the door to speak to this 

 prince, lie ordered out 600 of his guard, all young men without 

 beard, and almost naked, with each his musquet ; the king then 

 got up and went to his house, loaded the guard after unloading 

 their musquets in the air. The prince when at his lodging con- 

 sidered he was critically situated, and that by his bad behaviour 

 the wife promised him had been given to another, and that the 

 people belonging to the caravan he had plundered had followed 

 him to the king : he sent to the king three horses, and to all the 

 chiefs half apiece white cotton. Next day the king sent back the 

 ambassadors who had come from Joucha with his ambassadors. 

 Next day he went to Impibara. 1 went the next day there to meet 

 him. We staid there nine days. Being displeased with such 

 delay I wanted to depart. Some one went and said to the king, I 

 was angry and was going to depart He said, Tell Isaaco to stay, 

 1 am going to Banancoro, we will go together. He next went to 

 Banancoro, and I staid ; he then sent me a courier to call me-. I 

 went there to Inche's house, the king's slave. The motive of the 

 king's journey there was to see one of his children. He has six 

 children living ; he had three put to death there. Among the 

 kings, their custom is when a male child is born on Friday, they 

 order his throat to be cut, which is done immediately. At about 

 ten, a. m. the king sent for me, I went to him, he then ordered 



{)art of the present to be brought before him, in which were the 

 logs, (the dog died a short time after my arrival) ; the hogs were 

 let loose before him which pleased him much. 



Next day he gave me a canoe with three rat n, and I departed on 

 my voyage in the afternoon on Friday ; following the tide, passed 

 ten village-, ; arrived at supper time :it Sansanding, (that space is 

 two days' journey by land); slept there; Started at three, p. m. 

 by land, and arrived at tun-sel at Madina: at Alihous, found there 



Ainaudv FatOUma, the guide MungO Park took from Sansanding. 

 I sent to lii-, house to call him, he came to me ; 1 asked him a 

 faithful account of what passed concerning Mungo Park His 

 first words were, They are dead. 1 told him 1 tame to see after 



him, and 1 intended to lyuk every way lor you to know the truth. 



