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MR PARK'S FIRST JOURNEY. 
quent incursions of the Moors force them to carry 
their arms into the field, with their instruments of 
agriculture. From Wassiboo, he proceeded by 
Satile and Galloo, along with some fugitive Kaar- 
tans, to Moorja, a large town, where an extensive 
commerce in salt is carried on by the Moors, who 
exchange it for corn and cotton-cloth. The na^ 
tives, who are Mahometans, are very hospitable, 
but prohibit Kafirs to drink corn-spirit, or beer. 
Advancing through a fertile romantic country, by 
Datliboo and Fanimboo, large villages, they reach- 
ed Doolinkeaboo. As they approached Sego, the 
number of passengers on the roads augmented, and 
the people became less hospitable ; but he observ- 
ed, for the first time in Africa, that women were 
here admitted into society. Mr Park was con- 
stantly mistaken for a Moor by the Bambarrans, 
who jested upon the sorry appearance of himself 
and his horse, and affected to think that he had 
been at Mecca. On July 21st he reached Sego, 
and, a little before his arrival, he had the inex- 
pressible satisfaction of beholding the long-sought 
majestic Niger, glittering to the morning-sun, as 
broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing 
slowly from west to east Mr Park immediately 
hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the 
water, returned fervent thanks to God, for having 
crowned his labours thus far with success. Sego, 
the capital oMBambarra, which lies in N. lat. 14* 
