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 
Author's stay at Koomakary. — 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, notzmth standing, 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 farra, the frontier Town of the Moorish Ter- 
ritories ; and sets out for that Place, accompanied by Three of 
the King's Sons, 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 
