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MUNGO PARK'S 
Somonies (38) ; and having cut the owner of the canoe 
across the forehead with his sword, and broke his brother's 
head with a canoe paddle, he seized one of his sons, and 
brought him away as a slave along with the canoe. He 
however set the boy at liberty, his father paying two thou- 
sand shells for his release. 
We left Koolikorro at thirty-five minutes past eleven. 
I will not trouble your Lordship with transcribing the 
courses and compass bearings from this to Sansanding. 
The latitude of the places will give a sufficient idea of the 
course of the river ; and I hope to give a tolerable correct 
chart of all its turnings and widings, when I return to 
Great Britain. o / n 
Observed mer. alt. Sun. - 80 45 0 
0 16 0 
81 1 0 
ZD. - 8 59 ON 
B. - 3 53 0 
Koolikorro Latitude - 12 52 ON 
The horizon was an oblique view across the river. Dis- 
tance of the land seven miles; height of the eye sixteen 
inches above the surface of the water. 
We travelled very pleasantly all day ; in fact nothing 
can be more beautiful than the views of this immense 
