348 MR park's first journey. 
Sego. The king of Kasson dying at this period, 
the succession was disputed by his two sons ; the 
unsuccessful candidate retired to Gedingooma ; and 
as Daisy, who had lived in friendship with both the 
brothers, refused to deliver him up, though he did 
not interfere in the contest, the king of Kasson 
joined some disaffected Kaartans in a predatory ex- 
cursion into Kaarta. Daisy retaliated this attack, 
by surprising three large villages of Kasson, and 
putting every effective man to the sword, and, 
among the rest, many of his own traitorous sub- 
jects. Upon this, the Kaartan tribes, by whom he 
had been deserted, commenced hostilities against 
their former prince, but were obliged to retreat at 
the approach of Daisy, when the war was termi- 
nated by the rainy season. 
Jarra, often pronounced Yarra and Yarba, 
where Mr Park had now arrived, is a large town, 
the houses of which are built of stone, intermix- 
ed with clay instead of mortar, the majority of the 
inhabitants of which are negroes. Here he re- 
sided fourteen days in the house of a Gambia sla- 
tee, (upon whom he had an order from Dr Laid- 
ley for a debt,) till a messenger returned from Ali 
the Moorish prince, to whom he had been sent to 
solicit permission to travel through his country. 
On the 26th of February, one of Ali's slaves ar- 
rived to conduct him to Goomba ; and as all his 
attendants, except his faithful boy Demba, refus- 
