62 MUNOO PARK'S, &c. 
village, and paid the person who found it twenty bars, and 
the Dooty ten bars. Mounted the load on my horse, and 
drove it before me. I did not reach Fankia till seven 
o'clock ; having to walk slow, in order to coax on three 
sick soldiers who had fallen behind, and were for lying 
down under every tree they passed. Fankia is a small 
village, four miles North West from JSinlingalla. Here 
we departed from my former route, and did not touch on 
it again till we reached the Niger. 
