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



He told me it was useless to make any further inquiry after him ; 

 for to look after what was irrevocably lost was losing time without 

 any end. I told him, I am going to Sansanding, and you will 

 come and meet me there to-morrow ; slept at Sansanding. I sent 

 back to Impebara the canoe. Amaudy Fatouma came at the ap- 

 pointed time to meet me, being the 21st day of the moon. 1 told 

 him to let me know what passed to his knowledge concerning 

 Mungo Park. 



Amaudy' s Journal. 



He said, We departed from Sansanding in a canoe, the 27th 

 day of the moon. We went to Selli in two days ; the same village 

 where Mungo Park slept his first voyage. Mungo Park bought a 

 slave to help us to navigate the canoe, without landing we went in 

 two days to Jenni ; we gave the chief of the village a sieve of haft ; 

 we continued and arrived at Sibby, I forget in how many days; 

 we arrived here without any danger. On passing Sibby, three 

 canoes came after us with their weapons ; being certain of their 

 hostile intentions, we repulsed them by force of arms, and passed 

 on. Came to Cabbara ; on my passing there, three canoes came 

 again to oppose our passage, we repulsed them by force as before ; 

 came to Toomboucoutou ; on passing there we were again assailed 

 by three other canoes, which we repulsed ; passed Gouroumo, after 

 passing seven canoes after us, which we likewise repulsed ; we lost 

 one white man, of sickness ; there were then in the canoe only four 

 white men, myself, and three slaves we had bought, making eight 

 hands; each of us had 15 musquets apiece, well loaded, and 

 always ready for action ; passed before a village of which 1 forget the 

 name, the residence of the king Goioijigi; after passing this vil- 

 lage 60 canoes came after us, which we repulsed after killing many 

 of the natives, which we had done in all our former ensrasrements. 

 In this last action we killed so many men of the enemy, that 

 seeing our superiority, I took hold of Mastin's hands, and said, We 

 have killed enough, let us cease firing. Mastin wanted to kill me, 

 had not Mungo Park interfered. After passing Goioijigi a long 

 way, we met an army very strong, all on foot, composed of the 

 Poule nation, without any beasts whatsoever with them; we passed 

 on the other side of the jalliba, and went on without any hos- 

 tilities. 



On going along, the canoe touched on the rocks. An hippo- 

 potamus rose on the other side of the rock upon us, and was like to 

 have destroyed the canoe; we fired oa the animal* drove him awav, 

 and got with great pains our boat off. We came to anchor in the 

 middle of the river before CalFo; passed/there the day; departed 

 in the evening. We had when we first embarked a great quantity 

 of provisions of all kinds, the canoe being very large, and capable 

 of containing 100 people : we had no occasion to stop at any 

 place, neitfier did we ; came to anchor near an island, found a 

 great quantity of hippopotamus on shore ; on our approach they 



