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n^outh, and being there joined by foxir or five artificers 

 Z: the doc.-yfrds appointed for the er.ce they fet M 



:n-?eyafGlt~Ltr7th"of April ,805 Mr. Park 

 :ri cLparture from Kayee, a f-11 to., on the Gan^b:a, 

 a little below Plfania, havmg previoufly engaged a Man- 

 dilo prieft, named Ifaaco, who was al o a_ travelh, g 

 t?chanl and much accuilomed to l-g-^^f ™es to 

 ferve as a guide to his caravan. On the i ith ot Ma> , he 

 an- ved at Sladina, the capital of the ku,gdom of Woolh, and 

 on the 14th he reached KulTai, on the banks of the Gambia, 

 where tl^- river is about 100 yards broad, and has a regular 

 tide. On the 1 8th, he crofTed the nver Nenco, 60 feet broad 

 four feet deep, flowing at \he rate of two miles an hovns 

 and with a heat at two o'clock of 94^ Fahrenheit, and 

 arrived at Jallacotta, tlie hrft town of Tenda, at fun-fet. 

 On the 20th reached Tendico or Tambico, a village 

 belonging to Jallacotta, lat. 13^ 53', half a mile from which 

 is a pret'ty large town, called Bady. May 21ft at eight, 

 haUed at Jeningalla, near Bufra or Iv^batenda. On the 

 24th, Hopped at Manfafara, which confifts of three towns, 

 contiguous to each other, and diftant from the village of 

 Nittakorra, on the north bank of the Gambia, eight miles 

 due fouth. Next day entered the Tenda or Samakara wil- 

 dernefs, and halted at Sooteetaba, lat .3° 33' 33" ; after 

 leavineithls place, crofTed the firft range of hills, which afforded 

 a beautiful route and profped. On the 26th reached Bee- 

 creek, lat. 13^ 32' 45". W. long. 10° 59', where men and 

 bealls were attacked by an immenfe number ot bees, who 

 feemcd for a time to have completely terminated their journey. 

 An-ived at Sibikilhn, after travelling four miles, on the 

 •'7th ; and on tlie 28th, arrived at Badoo, a fmall town, 

 confining of about 300 huts, near which is another town of 

 the fame name ; but the two towns are diftinguifiied by 

 the names of Sanfandlng and Sanfanba, at each of which 

 cuftoms are demanded of all coffles or caravans, lat. 13° 

 32'. From Badoo proceeded to Tambacuuda, about 

 four miles eaft of it, and about four miles diftant from 

 the river Gambia, fouth of Badoo : leaving Tambacunda 

 on the 30th, entered the woods, and at dark arrived at 

 Tabba Gee, which was left at day -break the 31ft of May, 

 and halted during the heat of the day at a fmall village, 

 called Mambarl. On tiie ift of June, arrived at Juli- 

 funda, a confiderable trading town, containing about 

 2000 perfons, who trade on credit, and are called " Juli," 

 by way of diftinftion from the Slatee, v.ho trades with his own 

 capital. At this place, lat. 13' 33', they were exorbitantly 

 taxed by Manfa Kuffan, who is reckoned one of the moft 

 avaricious chiefs on the road. On the 4th of June, 

 arrived at Banlferlle, a Mahometan town, whofe chief, 

 Fodi Brahelma, was one of the moft friendly men^ they 

 met with, lat. 13° 35'. The kingdom of Dentila is 

 famous for Its iron ; and the flux ufed for fmelting it is 

 the allies of the bark of the kino-tree. On the 7th of 

 June, in profecution of their journey, crofTed the bed of a 

 ftream that runs towards the Faleme river, called Samakoo, 

 on account of the vaft herds of elephants which wa(h them- 

 felvcs in it during the rains. At noon of the 8th, reached 

 Madina, and halted by the fide of Faleme river ; in the 

 evening went to Satadoo, one mile call of the river. On 

 the lOth reached a fmall town called Shrondo at fun-fet ; 

 here they were alarmed by a tornado, which was the 

 commencement of the rainy feafon, and extremely per- 

 nicious to the attendants on the expedition. 



In the vicinity of this town are fome gold-mines, which 

 were iiifpefted, and which afforded occafion for wit- 

 neffing the expeditious mode praftifed by the female na- 



tives, for feparatlng the particles of gold from the fand. 

 Leaving Shrondo on the I2th, they travelled along the 

 bottom of the Konkodoo mountains, which are very fteep 

 precipices of rock, from 80 to 200 or 300 feet high, and 

 at noon reached Dindikoo, near which are gold-pits. 

 On the 13th, they arrived at a fmall village called 

 Fankia, four miles N.W. from Binlingalla, lat. 13° 22' 30". 

 On the 15th, they proceeded from Fankia to the de- 

 lightful village of Toombln, and on the 17th travelled from 

 Serimanna to Fajemmla, a fmall village, fortified with a high 

 wall, the chief of which Is the moft powerful in Kon- 

 kodoo, and has In fubjeftlon the whole country from Toom- 

 bln to the Ba Flng. At Fajemmla, N. lat. 13' gj', the 

 cuftoms paid to the chief are very high. On the 20th, 

 they arrived at an almoft deferted village, called Nea- 

 lakalla, clofe to the Ba Lee or Honey river, where 

 they faw two crocodiles and an incredible number of 

 large fifti. On the 21ft, they paffedthc village of Boontoon- 

 kooran, and halted for the night at the village of Doog- 

 gikotta ; and the next day they obferved many very 

 piclurefque and rocky hills during their march, and in the 

 evening halted at the village of Fahfing, fituated on the 

 fummlt of the afcent which feparates the Ba Lee from 

 the Ba Flng. On the 23d, they arrived at the village of 

 Gimbia, or Kimbia ; and about noon reached SuUo, an 

 un walled village, at the bottom of a rocky hill, at which 

 place horfe-fleih is much valued as food, and where they 

 obferved on the adjacent rocks numbers of large monkeys. 

 On the next day, they arrived at Secoba, lat. t^" 27' 26", 

 and here they halted on the 25th. On the following day, 

 they arrived at the village of Konkromo, about feven 

 miles eaft of Secoba, W. long. 8^ 6', near the river Ba 

 Fing, a large river quite navigable, and which they 

 crofted in canoes on the 27th ; and on the next day, they 

 paffed by feveral heaps of ftone, precifely the fame with thofe 

 that are called in Scotland cairns. In purfuinor their march, 

 they were alarmed by herds of lions and wolves, and on 

 the 30th, reached a imall town, called Kandy. On the 

 2d of July, they arrived at Koeena, a village en- 

 compafled by a waU, and where they were terrified by 

 the roaring and aflault of feveral young lions. On the 

 3d, they arrived, after a march of fix miles, at Koom- 

 bandi ; and at fun-fet reached Fonllla, a fmall walled 

 village, on the banks of the Wonda, which they crofted 

 on the 4th in canoes, Ifaaco having had a furprifing 

 efcape from the felzure of a crocodile. On the 5th, 

 they arrived at a village called Boolinkoomboo, fometimes 

 Molaharra ; and on the loth, left this village; and 

 eight miles N.E. pan"ed the village of Serrababoo, and 

 a little before fun-fet reached Saboofeera, (Dooty Matta,) 

 a fcattered unwalled village, lat. 13^ 50'. From Saboo- 

 feera, or Mallaboo, they purfued their march on the 

 I Ith to Keminoom, or Manlakorro, a walled town, 

 ftrongly fortified, lat. 14- ; near which the river Ba 

 Lee runs with great velocity, and breaks into fmall 

 cataraits. This place is notorious for theft and im- 

 pudence, and they were glad to leave it on the 13th, and 

 to purfue their march by a walled village, called Num- 

 maboo, to the banks of the Ba Woolima, where they 

 arrived on the 19th ; and having crofted the river by means 

 of a wooden bridge of fingular conftruftion, they reached 

 Mareena on the 21ft, where they f'uffered depredation ; and 

 on the 2 2d, they arrp'ed at Bangaill, fix miles from 

 Mareena, a large town, four or five times larger than 

 Maniakorro, and fortified in a fimilar manner. On the 

 27th, they arrived at Nummafoolo, a large but much 

 ruined town, and which they left on the 30th. On the 



