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MR PARK'S FIRST JOURNEY. 
They also demanded their Moorish auxiliaries from 
Ali ; but that perfidious prince informed them, 
that his cavalry " were otherwise employed." On 
the 24th, the army of the confederates returned 
without venturing to encounter Daisy, after plun- 
dering some of his villages. But, on the 26th, 
the alarming intelligence arrived, that the king of 
Kaarta was on his march to Jarra, and had already 
taken Simbing. The inhabitants immediately pre- 
pared to evacuate the town, and the women con- 
tinued all night beating corn, and packing up their 
most necessary articles. Next morning, the great- 
er number departed from Bambarra, by the way of 
Deena, driving their sheep, cows, and goats, and 
carrying a small quantity of provisions and clothes. 
Lamentation resounded along the road ; the wo- 
men and children were crying ; the men were sul- 
len and dejected, and, as they travelled on, fre- 
quently paused to view their native city, and the 
wells and rocks to which all their plans of ambition 
and of happiness had been confined. The centinels 
soon after reported, that the confederate army had 
fled before Daisy, without firing a gun ; upon 
which the screams of the women and children re- 
doubled, the remaining inhabitants deserted the 
town, and Mr Park, dreading to be mistaken for a 
Moor in the confusion of victory, mounted his 
horse, took a bag of corn behind him, and joined 
the fugitives. At Queira he waited- a few days 
