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Gambia, as soon as the grass was burnt, and the 
rivers could be forded, and advised him to stay and 
accompany the caravan, as it was impossible for a 
single white to pass the wilds of Jallonkadoo, when 
the natives could not travel through the country. 
Mr Park answered, that, having expended his mo- 
ney, he must either remain to perish with hunger, 
or beg his subsistence on his journey ; when the 
benevolent negro assured him, that if he could sub- 
sist upon the country victuals, he would maintain 
him till the termination of the rains, and conduct 
him to the Gambia, where he might reward him as 
he thought proper. Mr Park offered to pay him 
the value of a prime slave, which he agreed to ac- 
cept, and immediately appropriated a hut to his 
use, and, notwithstanding the malicious insinua- 
tions of the invidious Slatees, continued to treat 
him with the kindest attention. But no accom- 
modation could suspend the progress of the fever, 
which had gradually acquired strength, and now 
became so violent, that, during five weeks, he was 
confined to his hut, and so debilitated, that he could 
hardly stand upright. In the beginning of De- 
cember, a Serawoolli Slatee arrived from Sego with 
slaves, one of whom asked Mr Park to give him 
some food ; and, upon his answering that he was 
a stranger, the slave replied, " I gave you victuals 
" when you were hungry. Have you forgot the 
" man who brought you milk at Karankalla ?" ad- 
