34 TRAVELS IN THE 
with their demand, and having presented them with four bars 
of tobacco, for the king's use, I was permitted to continue my 
journey, and at sunset reached a village near Kootacunda, 
where we rested for the night. 
In the morning of December 4th, I passed Kootacunda, the 
last town of Walli, and stopped about an hour at a small adjoin- 
ing village to pay customs to an officer of the King of Woolli ; 
we rested the ensuing night at a village called Tabajang ; and 
at noon the next day (December 5th) we reached Medina, the 
capital of the King of Woolli's dominions. 
The kingdom of Woolli is bounded by Walli on the west, by 
the Gambia on the south, by the small river Walli on the north 
west ; by Bondou on the north east ; and on the east, by the 
Simbani wilderness. 
The country every where rises into gentle acclivities, which 
are generally covered with extensive woods, and the towns are 
situated in the intermediate valleys. Each town is surrounded 
by a tract of cultivated land, the produce of which, I presume, 
is found sufficient to supply the wants of the inhabitants ; for the 
soil appeared to me to be every where fertile, except near the 
tops of the ridges, where the red iron stone and stunted shrubs 
sufficiently marked the boundaries between fertility and barren- 
ness. The chief productions are cotton, tobacco, and esculent 
vegetables ; all which are raised in the valleys, the rising grounds 
being appropriated to different sorts of corn. 
The inhabitants are Mandingoes ; and, like most of the Man- 
dingo nations, are divided into two great sects, the Mahomedans, 
who are called Busbreens, and the Pagans who are called in- 
