v 37& mr park's first journey. 
a boy for interment. It was thrown carelessly in, 
the brutal master merely calling out, " money 
" lost ! money lost I" Our traveller now advanced 
successively to Koolikorro, Marraboo, and Bam- 
makoo, where the Niger first becomes navigable, 
50 miles from Kamaliah in Manding, and 10 
journeys from Sego. At Bammakoo, Mr Park 
was informed, that the only pervious route passed 
through Manding, by Sibidooloo, to which town a 
jilli-kea, or singing-man, undertook to conduct 
him. After travelling two miles up a rocky glen> 
his musical companion discovered that he had mis- 
taken the horse road, and, mounting over some 
steep rocks, left Mr Park to admire his agility, and 
discover hh own route. After regaining the road, 
he traversed some high rocky grounds, where the 
soil was shallow, and the rocks consisted of iron- 
stone, and schistus, with nodules of white quartz. 
On the south-east, he saw the mountains of Kong, 
which, he was informed, were situated in a large 
kingdom, more powerful than Bambarra. In the 
evening, he reached the romantic village of Kooma, 
belonging to a Mandingo merchant, by whom he 
was received with the greatest kindness, and was 
soon surrounded by a circle of curious villagers, 
who, free from the depredations of war, exhibited, 
among these natural fastnesses, much native bene- 
volence and pastoral simplicity. Next day» on his 
road to Sibidooloo, he was stripped and plundered 
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