1814.] Account of the Death of Mr. Mungo Payk. 3s£ 



thing else he could find belonging to Mungo Park. I left Madioa^ 

 and went to Sansanding, and from thence to Sego. On my arrival 

 I went to Dacha, the King, and told him as above related. He 

 said he would have gone and destroyed that country if it was not so 

 far. He then formed an army, and went with it to Banancoro. I 

 followed him there. I staid there with the King. The army wa^ 

 sent to Haoussa, which, after passing Tomboocoutoo, they made halt 

 at Sacha, and dispatched a courier to tbe King to let him know 

 where they were, and that Haoussa was too far off for an army to go 

 thither. The King ordered tbem to go to Massina, a small country 

 belonging to the Pauls, and take all their cattle, and return. They 

 did so, and brought with them a great quantity of cattle, after being 

 out three months, viz. the van-guard, but the army did not return 

 till the end of the fourth month. 



The King was much displeased at the Chiefs of the army, and 

 wanted to punish them for not going where he sent them. They 

 said they went as far as they possibly could, but the distance was 

 too great. It would have destroyed the army, and prudence dictated 

 to them the hard necessity of returning. We came all together 

 back to Sego 3 from Sego 1 went back to Sansanding, and staid there 

 four months. The poulc I sent came hack, altera voyage of eight 

 months, with the belt. He told me he had bribed a young girl, 

 slave of the King, to steal the belt, and brought it to me ; he 

 could get nothing else, as nothing remained after Mungo Park. 

 I then went to Sego, and told the King what I had got be- 

 longing to Mungo Park, and that 1 was going back to Senegal. 

 The King wanted me to spend the remainder of the season with 

 him. I said I could not ; as my mission was at an end, I would 

 not stay. 



Amaudy Foutouma being a good and upright man, I had placed 

 him with Mungo Park. What he related to me, with oath, may be 

 believed, having no interest nor any hopes of any rewind whatever, 

 nothing remaining of Mungo Park or his effects. The relations of 

 several travellers who had passed that same country agreeing with 

 Amaudy's journal, the dangers I should have run, to no effect, in 

 such a distant part, and my being certain of Amady's words: all 

 these reasons engaged me to go no further j after obtaining the belt, 

 I thought it best to return to Senegal. 



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