INTERIOR OF AFRICA. 
CHAPTER VII. 
The Author admitted to an Audience of the King of Kasson, whom 
he finds well disposed towards him, — Incidents during the 
Authors stay at Koo?tiakary. — Departs thence for Kemmoo, 
the Capital of Kaarta. — Is received with great kindness by the 
King of Kaarta, who dissuades him from prosecuting his Jour- 
ney, on Account of approaching Hostilities with the King of 
Bambarra. — The Author determines, notwithstanding, to pro- 
ceed ; and the usual Routes being obstructed, takes the Path to 
Ludamar, a Moorish Kingdom. — Is accommodated by the King 
with a Guide to Jarra, the frontier Town of the Moorish Ter- 
ritories ; and sets out for that Place, accompanied by Three of 
the King's Sotis, and 200 Horsemen. 
About eight o'clock in the morning of January 15, 1796, we 
went to an audience of the king (Demba Sego Jalla) ; but the 
crowd of people to see me was so great, that I could scarcely 
get admittance. A passage being at length obtained, I made 
my bow to the monarch, whom we found sitting upon a mat, in 
a large hut : he appeared to be a man of about sixty years of 
age : his success in war, and the mildness of his behaviour in 
time of peace, had much endeared him to all his subjects. He 
surveyed me with great attention ; and when Salim Daucari 
explained to him the object of my journey, and my reasons for 
