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baft, or ten bars of scarlet, which he preferred. At the 
same time I wrote the following note to the men. 
" Dear Soldiers, 
" I am sorry to learn that you have returned to Ban- 
gassi. 1 have sent in charge of the bearer of this three 
complete strings of amber ; one of which will procure rice 
for forty days ; the second will purchase milk or fowls for 
the same time ; and the third will buy provisions for you 
on the road till you arrive at the Niger. 
Your's 
M. PARK. * 
July 28th.^Rained all day. Remained in the tent at 
Nummasoolo. 
July 29. — Divided the men's clothes who were left be- 
hind amongst the other men ; many of them being in great 
want of clothes, and the nights being now cold and damp. 
Found five dollars in J. Trott's knapsack, for which I am 
accountable. Spread out the rice to dry ; found it hot and 
much damaged. Some people arrived from the East, who 
informed us that a stream on the road, which is usually dry, 
was so much swelled by the rain that no ass could cross it. 
Halted here during the day to dry the different articles. 
