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MR PARK'S FIRST JOURNEY. 
collected in considerable quantities. The proper 
town is inhabited by the Kafirs, and the huts of 
the Bushreens are built at a little distance, beside 
their jnissura or mosque, a square piece of levellecf 
ground, surrounded by the trunks of trees. Here, 
in a country where famine prevailed, sickly and 
exhausted, with the rapid river Kokoro, and the 
gloomy wilds of Jallonkadoo before him, Mr Park 
thought he could almost point out the spot where 
lie was to perish, when he was unexpectedly reliev- 
ed from the deepest distress, by the kindness of a 
benevolent negro. Being conducted to the house 
of a Bushreen, named Karfa Taura, who was col- 
lecting a caravan of slaves, to be conducted to the 
Gambia, at the termination of the periodical rains, 
he found him reading an Arabic book to some Sla- 
tees that were to join him. As the other Slatees 
had seen Europeans on the coast, they suspected 
Mr Park to be an Arab, from the yellowness of 
his complexion, occasioned by sickness, his long 
beard, ragged clothes, and extreme poverty. Karfa 
inquired if lie understood Arabic, and, being an- 
swered in the negative, caused a little book to be 
brought, which had come from the west, which Mr 
Park was surprised to find the Book of Common 
Prayer. When Karfa perceived that he could read 
fjiis book, he had no doubt that he was a white, 
- and promised every possible assistance. He in- 
formed him that he intended to proceed to the 
