LIFE OF MUNGO PARK. 
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I have sent a few specimens in a trunk, which I hope will 
come safe ; the most remarkable are, 
"1st. The Fang jani, or self-burning tree of Gambia. 
This grows plentifully on the banks of the Gambia betwixt 
Yanimaroo and Kayee, and no where else. It is certainly 
burnt by some internal process, of which I am ignorant. 
Few of the natives have seen it actually burning ; but 
every person who has sailed up the Gambia will allow that 
these bushes are burnt in places where no human being- 
could set them on fire, and where the grass around them 
was not burnt. I have sent you a burnt stump, two tops, 
and a fruit. 
" 2d. The Kino, (so called by the natives), a branch and 
fruit of the original gum kino tree and a paper of the real 
gum ; none of this gum is at present exported from Gam- 
bia, though it might be collected in some quantity. 
*' 3d. The Tribo, a root with which the natives dye their 
leather of a yellow colour. It is not in flower at this 
season.* 
The wars which at present prevail in Bondou and 
Kasson, have prevented the merchants from bringing down 
the Shea butter ; otherwise I would have sent you a pot 
of it. I have sent you as a specimen of African manufac- 
tures, a Mandingo cloth dyed from the leaves of theindigo, 
half a dozen small pots, and some Lefa's or calabash covers. 
I regret that I have not been able to procure any Bondou 
Frankincense. — Give my compliments to Major Rennell, 
and tell him that I hope to be able to correct my former 
* See Appendix. No. V, 
