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Slatees were sitting. When every one had brought his quota, 
and the whole was properly arranged in small gourd shells, 
the schoolmaster offered up a short prayer; the substance of 
which was, that God and the holy Prophet might preserve 
us from robbers and all bad people, that our provisions might 
never fail us, nor our limbs become fatigued. This ceremony 
being ended, every one partook of the meal, and drank a 
little water; after which we set forward (rather running 
than walking), until we came to the river Kokoro, a branch 
of the Senegal, where we halted about ten minutes. The 
banks of this river are very high; and from the grass and 
brushwood which had been left by the stream, it was evident 
that at this place, the water had risen more than twenty 
feet perpendicular, during the rainy season. At this time it 
was only a small stream, such as would turn a mill, swarming 
with fish ; and on account of the number of crocodiles, and the 
danger of being carried past the ford by the force of the stream 
in the rainy season, it is called Kokoro (dangerous). From 
this place we continued to travel with the greatest expedition, 
and in the afternoon crossed two small branches of the Kokoro. 
About sunset we came in sight of Kinytakooro, a consider- 
able town, nearly square, situated in the middle of a large and 
well cultivated plain: before we entered the town we halted, 
until the people who had fallen behind came up. During this 
day's travel, two slaves, a woman and a girl belonging to a 
Slatee of Bala, were so much fatigued that they could not keep 
up with the coffle; they were severely whipped, and dragged 
along until about three o'clock in the afternoon, when they 
