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ed to advance into the Moorish country, he deli- 
vered a duplicate of his papers to Johnson, to con- 
vey them to the Gambia. Here he left his su- 
pernumerary clothes with Daman Jumma, the 
slatee, and here he was plundered of his sextant, 
which' accident terminated his observations of la- 
titude, and caused the parallels of his remaining 
geographical stations to be left undetermined. 
From Jarra he departed, on the #7th of February, 
and advanced through a sandy country, by Troom- 
goomba and Quiza, to Deena, a large town built 
of stone and clay, where the Moors were more nu- 
merous in proportion to the negroes than at Jar- 
ra. These ferocious fanatics insulted Mr Park in 
the grossest manner ; but, finding it impossible to 
irritate him so far as to afford them a pretext for 
seizing his baggage, they determined to plunder 
him, because he was a Christian, and the pretend- 
ed protection of Ali did not secure him from their 
rapacity. From Deena, he proceeded over a sandy 
country, covered with Asclepias gigantica, to Sam- 
paka, a large town which ibrmerly belonged to 
Bambara, and had often resisted the attacks of the 
Moors, but, at the termination of the last war be- 
tween the Moors and Bambarans, had been resign- 
ed to the king of Ludamar, with all the country as 
far as Goomba. There he lodged in the house of 
a negro, who manufactured gunpowder from nitre, 
collected from the reservoirs of water frequented 
