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MUNGO PARK'S 
May lOtb. — Having paid all the people who had assisted 
in driving the asses, I found that the expense was greater 
than any benefit we were likely to derive from them. I 
therefore trusted the asses this day entirely to the soldiers. 
We left Tabajang at sun-rise, and made a short and easy 
march to Tatticonda, where the son of my friend, the 
former King of Woolli, came to meet me. From him I 
could easily learn that our journey was viewed with great 
jealousy by the Slatees and Sierra- WooUis residing about 
Madina. 
May 11th. — About noon arrived at Madina, the capital 
of the kingdom of Woolli. We unloaded our asses under 
a tree without the gates of the town, and waited till five 
o'clock before we could have an audience from his majesty. 
I took to the King a pair of silver mounted pistols, ten 
dollars, ten bars of amber, ten of coral. But, when he had 
looked at the present with great indifference for some time, 
he told me that he could not accept it ; alleging, as an 
excuse for his avarice, that I had given a much handsomer 
present to the King of Kataba. It was in vain that I 
assured him of the contrary ; he positively refused to accept 
it, and I was under the necessity of adding fifteen dollars, 
ten bars coral, ten amber, before his majesty would accept 
it. After all, he begged me to give him a blanket to wrap 
himself in during the rains, which I readily sent him. 
