MR PARK'S FIRST JOURNEY. 
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the land of the setting sun. At Dindikoo, in 
Konkodoo, Mr Park saw an Albino, or white ne- 
gro ; his complexion was cadaverous, and his hair 
and skin of a dull white colour, considered by the 
negroes as the effect of disease. From Baniserile, 
they advanced to Kirwanny, a large town situated 
in a valley. - The inhabitants of this town are ac- 
tive and industrious, and their agriculture is more 
improved than any of their neighbours. Advan- 
cing through the Tenda wilderness, a rugged slop- 
ing country, covered with wood, on the second day 
they arrived at Tambacunda, a walled town, to the 
west of which there are no shea trees. Here one 
of the Slatees had a wife ; but, on his arrival, he 
found her married to another, who refused to de- 
liver her upj alleging that she was at liberty to -marry* 
by an African law, which permits this privilege to 
any woman, whose husband is absent three years 
without informing her he is alive. After holding 
a palaver on the subject, it was determined that the 
wife should take her choice of the two husbands. 
They departed from Tambacunda on the 26th* 
and after passing Tenda, and crossing the Nerico, 
the sixth stream which Mr Park had observed to 
fall into the Gambia from the N. E., their arrival 
in the country of the west, or the land of the set- 
ting sun, was celebrated by the singing-men. They 
soon after reached Seesukunda, in Woolli. The 
slaves had collected great quantities of the fruit of 
