840 MR park's first journey. 
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eat an egg. As his friend, Demba, in order to 
give himself an air of importance, had borrowed 
his horse, bridle, and saddle, while he went to ne- 
gociate with the Moors of Gedumah, Mr Park was 
forced to remain till his return ; during which 
time, an embassy from Aim ami Abdulkader, king 
of Foota Torra, arrived at Teesee, and announced 
to the commandant Tiggity Sego, the father of 
Demba, that, unless the people of Kasson should 
embrace the Mahometan religion, and demonstrate 
their conversion by saying eleven public prayers, 
the king of Foota Torra would, in the approaching 
war, unite his arms with those of Kajaaga. Upon 
mature deliberation, the inhabitants of Teesee, con- 
sidering that much less injury could result from the 
repetition of public prayers than from the armies 
of Foota Torra, resolved to comply with the condi- 
tion, which was accordingly received as a sufficient 
proof of their conversion. At the return of Dem- 
ba, Mr Park resolved to proceed immediately to 
Kooniakary, the capital ; but, before he was allow- 
ed to depart from Teesee, he was plundered of 
half his remaining goods, by his obliging friend, 
under the double pretext of duties and presents. 
Leaving Teesee, on the morning of January 10th, 
after crossing Krieko, a branch of the Senegal, near 
a large town named Madina, they arrived, on the 
second day, at Jumbo, the native town of the black- 
smith, whose brother came out to meet him, accom- 
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