SS4> mr park's first journey. 
ney, to hang up something on its branches. This 
practice, originally intended to mark a watering- 
place, had degenerated to a blind superstition ; 
and to encourage his attendants, Mr Park followed 
the example of the negroes. On the ISth he ar- 
rived at Tallika, the frontier town of Bondou, and 
traversed a fertile champaign country, till he reach- 
ed Koorkarany, in N. lat. 13° 53', being only 
interrupted by a quarrel between two of his at- 
tendants, which he terminated by threatening to 
shoot the person who had drawn his cutlass, if he 
attempted again to molest any of the company. 
At Koorkarany, the Marabout shewed him va- 
rious Arabic MSS. and, among the rest, the Al 
Sharra. From Koorkarany they proceeded through 
an open cultivated country, till they reached the 
banks of the Faleme, covered with large fields of 
corn ; the mimosa grew on the stony heights, and 
whinstone and quartz were often observed. Some 
wells which they passed were dug with great in- 
genuity, to the depth of ^8th fathoms. The villa- 
gers on the Faleme were skilful fishers. They 
prepare their fish by pounding them in a mortar, 
while fresh from the water, and drying them in 
the sun, into large loaves, which, in eating, they 
dissolve in boiling water, and mix with their 
kouskous. The black loaves, prepared in this 
manner, form an article of commerce in the Moor- 
ish districts, where fish is hardly known. The 
