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•ie could return thanks. Demba Sego, nephew to the king 

 f.f KasKon, and who happened to be then at Joag endea- 

 V ouring to negotiate a peace between his uncle and Bacheri, 

 v'ho were at variance, now undertook to guide him into that 

 i;ountry, and did so ; but exacted so many duties and pre- 

 eents, that Mi. Park was stripped of half his remaining 

 stock. Kasson was found a level, fertile, and beautiful 

 country. At Kooniakary, the capital, our traveller was 

 vt ell received by the king, and forwarded to Kemmoo, the 

 principal town of Kaarta. Daisy, the sovereign of this 

 last, likewise received him with the utmost kindness ; but 

 on learning his intention of taking the route to Timbuctoo 

 through Bambarro, he stated this to be impossible, as he 

 himself was then at war with the latter kmgdom, and as- 

 sured him that he would at once be killed if he attempted 

 to enter it from Kaarta. There remained, therefore, no 

 alternative but to go by way of the Moorish kingdom of 

 Ludamar, a perilous and fatal route, in which Major 

 ' loughton had already perished. Mr. Park, however, hoped, 

 iy proceeding along the southern frontier, to reach Bam- 

 barra without commg much into contact with the barbarous 

 and bigoted Moors by whom it was peopled. 



On his arrival at Jarra, a large town chiefly inhabited by 

 negroes, but entirely under the power of the Moors, he 

 sent to Benowm, the capital, a messenger loaded with pre- 

 sents to negotiate with Ali, their chief, for a passage through 

 Lis territories. After waiting a fortnight in great anxiety, 

 he received a safe-conduct to Goombo, a place on the fron- 

 tier of Barnbarra. He first proceeded to Deena, a town in 

 the possession of the Moors, who insulted and plundered 

 him in the grossest manner, so that he was happy to escape 

 by setting out at two in the morning of 3d March. He 

 passed next through Sampaka and Dalli, where he was re- 

 ceived by the negro inhabitants with the usual kindness and 

 hospitality of that race ; he was even induced to stop a day 

 at Dalli under promise of an escort ; but this was a fatal 

 pause. At Sami, on the 7th March, a party of Moorish 

 horsemen appeared, for the purpose of telling him that Fa- 

 tima, the favourite wife of AU, had been struck with curl- 

 osity to see what kind of creature a Christian was ; that he 

 must therefore come and show himself; but was assured 

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