350 MR park's first journey. 
by the cattle, and sulphur supplied by the Moors, 
who obtain it from the Mediterranean. The in- 
gredients are pounded in a wooden mortar, the 
grains are unequal, and the strength of the gun- 
powder very inferior to that of Europe. From 
Sampaka he proceeded to Dalli, within two' days' 
journey of Goomba, where he arrived on the 5th 
of March ; and, remaining in a village in its vici- 
nity, till he should be joined by some of the inha- 
bitants who intended to accompany him to Goom- 
ba, he was seized, on the 7th, by a party of Moors, 
who were ordered by Ali to convey him to Benowm, 
as his favourite wife Fatima was desirous of seeing 
the Christian. By the Moors he was conducted 
back to Deena, where he saw one of Ali's sons, 
who immediately handed him a double barrelled 
gun, and commanded him to repair one of the 
locks, and dye the stock of a blue colour. Mr 
Park found it extremely difficult to persuade him 
that a white might be ignorant of this art. On 
March 12th, they arrived at Benowm, which exhi- 
bited a great number of tents scattered irregularly 
over a large extent of ground, and divided by herds 
of camels, cattle, and goats. Here he remained 
till the 30th of April, and was treated with the ut- 
most insolence and brutality by the Moors, who 
shut him up in a hut in which a wild hog was tied, 
which the boys constantly irritated by beating, 
while the men and women regularly assembled to 
