&76 mr park's first journey. 
negroes induced them to purchase a white man's 
saphie, for a meal of rice or milk. Two days' 
journey from Sego, he passed Sai, a large town, 
the walls of which, at the distance of two hundred 
yards, were surrounded hy two deep trenches, 
flanked with square towers, like a regular fortifir 
cation. The inhabitants informed him, that, fif- 
teen years ago, the Dooty of Sai had two sons 
killed in the war of Maniana, and refused, at the 
order of the king, to send his sole surviving son to 
join the army of Bambarra. The incensed mo- 
narch, on his return from Maniana, laid siege to 
Sai, and as the inhabitants refused to surrender, 
though reduced to such an extremity by famine, 
that they devoured the bark and leaves of their 
Bentang tree, the king proclaimed, that, if they 
would open the gates, no person should suffer 
injury, except the Dooty. The Dooty immedi- 
ately resolved to sacrifice himself for the city, and 
walked out of the camp of Bambarra, where he 
was put to death, after which his son was mas- 
sacred, and the inhabitants sold for slaves. At 
the village of Song, the people refused to receive 
him within the gate, though the country was in- 
fested with lions. Mr Park collected grass for his 
horse, and lay down under a tree near the gate, but 
was soon roused by the roar of a lion, which advan- 
ced so near, that he heard him rustling among the 
grass, and immediately climbed the jtree for safety. 
