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place he had visited some time before, levying upon 
Dembo, then king of Bambara, a heavy contribution 
of gold. This king who was sprang from a Piillo 
mother, had succeeded his father Farma, the son of 
the king mentioned by Mungo Park under the name 
of Mansong, two years previously.* 
The Fiilbe, however, did not give up their point, 
and, as they did not find themselves strong enough to 
proceed to open violence, made an indirect attack 
upon me by putting in irons on the 27th some Arabs 
or Moors, on the pretext of having neglected their 
prayers, thereby protesting strongly enough against 
a -person of an entirely different creed staying in the 
town. The emir Kauri himself, who, on the whole, 
seemed to be a man of good sense, was in a most 
awkward position ; and when the kadhi informed 
him, that, if he was not able to execute the order 
which he had received from his liege lord, he should 
solicit the assistance of the people of Timbuktu, he 
the four quarters of that town, together with two other quar- 
ters which in a wider sense are included in the place, are situated 
on the south side of the river, as has been stated already in Recueil 
des Voyages, torn. ii. p. 53. Mungo Park, who states (First Journey 
p. 195.) the contrary, was evidently mistaken ; and from the cir- 
cumstances under which he passed by Sego, as a despised and sus- 
pected person, his mistake is easily intelligible. The two quarters 
which in a wider sense still belong to Sego are called Benan- 
koro and Bammabugu, in the former of which a well frequented 
market is held. There is, besides, a village close by called Bebara. 
* My information as to the succession of the kings of Bambara 
does not agree with that received by M. Faidherbe, the present 
governor of Senegal, published in the " Revue Coloniale," 1857, 
p. 279. I shall refer to this subject in another place. 
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