80 
MUNGO PARK'S 
By watch 
Time by Nautical Almanack 
Equation 
H. M. S. 
11 25 55 
11 24 40 
0 1 53 
Mean time at Greenwich 
11 26 33 
11 26 33 
Watch too slow 
0 0 38 
June 28th. — Purchased an ass for four minkallis of gold, 
and a horse for 45 bars. Set forwards about seven o'clock. 
After travelling four miles, the ass I had purchased lay 
down, and I found it impossible to raise him. Took off 
the load and left him. At ten o'clock came close to the 
bottom of a high rocky hill, which rises like an immense 
castle from the level plain : it is called Sanharee: and on 
enquiring about a large heap of stones near the foot of the 
precipice, I was told that the town of Madina, which was 
in the vicinity, was some years ago stormed by the Kaar- 
tans, and that the greater part of the inhabitants fled to- 
wards this hill. Some however were killed on the road, 
and these stones were collected over the grave of one of 
them. He said there were five more such near the hill, 
and that every person in passing, if he belongs to the same 
family or contong, thinks himself bound to throw a stone 
on the heap 1o perpetuate the memory of their friend. 
These heaps are precisely what in Scotland are called 
Cairns. This hill is accessible only by one very narrow 
