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8 that your presence in your own kingdom will 
ft be no longer dangerous to your neighbours ; 
" and then I will consider of the proper way of 
" disposing of you/' The king of Foota Torra 
was accordingly retained, and laboured as a slave 
for three months, when he was restored to his 
kingdom by the Darnel. 
On the 7th of May, Mr Park departed with 
the cofHe from Malacotta, and traversing Konkodoo, 
" the hilly country" which abounds in gold, and 
Satadoo, which had been much depopulated by the 
incursions of the Foulhas of Foota Jallo, he arrived 
at Baniserile, the capital of Dentila, on the 13th. 
He obtained little information concerning the po- 
litical state of these regions, which do not lie in 
so high a level as Manding, Jallonkadoo, Fooladoo, 
Gadou, and Kasson. The district containing these 
countries is the most elevated in Western Africa, 
descending rapidly on the east, but more gradually 
on the west. It is of a triangular form, extending 
about 330 miles on the south between Bambarra 
and Neola, and contracting to sixty or seventy in 
the space which is occupied by Kasson, between 
Kajaaga and Kaarta. Bambouk, Konkodoo, (term- 
ed Macanna by Labat), Satadoo, and Dentila, 
which occupy the place of Combregoudou, in that 
author, are situated on an inferior level, which ex- 
tends to Kirwanny, where the country begins to 
descend rapidly to the west, and is denominated 
