MR PARK'S FIRST JOtfRNEY 
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coast ; and a free man may lose his liberty in war, 
resign it in famine, or forfeit it by insolvency, or 
by the crimes of murder, adultery, and sorcery. 
On the 19th of April, which had been fixed as 
a fortunate day, the coffle, consisting of 73 per- 
sons, free men and slaves, after various prayers and 
superstitious ceremonies, departed from Kamaliah, 
and proceeded by Bala and Maraboo to Wo rum - 
bang, the frontier village of Manding. Next day 
they crossed the Kokoro, a branch of the Senegal, 
and arrived at Kinytakooro in Jallonkadoo. This 
town they entered in procession, with six singing 
men, who belonged to the coffle, in front, followed 
by the free men, after whom came the slaves, fas- 
tened by fours to one rope, with a spearman be- 
twixt every four ; in the rear advanced the domes- 
tic slaves, followed by the free women, and the 
wives of the Slatees. At the distance of 100 
yards from the gate, the singing men raised a 
song, in which they celebrated the hospitality of the 
inhabitants to strangers, and their partiality to the 
Mandingoes. When they arrived at the Bentang, 
the inhabitants assembled to hear their history, 
which the singing men related, in a retrograde or- 
der, from their arrival to their departure from Ka- 
maliah ; after which they were accommodated with 
lodgings and provisions in the houses of the natives, 
by whom they were individually invited. On the 23d, 
they entered the Jallonka wilderness, covered with 
