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up to dry. In four days a blue colour is produced, 
equal to the finest India baft. 
On the 1 1th, Park reached Madina, capital of 
the kingdom of Woolli. Great difficulty was here 
experienced, in satisfying the king as to the amount 
of presents to be given to him. Passing through 
Bambakoo, they reached on the 13th the village of 
Kanipe. Here the women having learned that 
the party were obliged to pay for water at Ma- 
dina, had contrived an expedient, with the view of 
extorting, on the same footing, some ornaments for 
their persons. With indefatigable industry, they 
emptied all the wells in the village, and were found, 
when the party arrived, drawing up the water 
from each as fast as it collected. Park, how- 
ever, by a stratagem, succeeded in securing the 
produce of the principal well ; which, being suffi- 
cient for the supply of the soldiers, rendered all 
these efforts of the African ladies of no avail. 
About four miles after, they entered the woods 
of Simbani. A civil war, now raging in Bondou, 
rendered it necessary to proceed with great caution, 
as the plunder of the Europeans might, to either 
party, have appeared a very profitable diversion of 
their force. On emerging from these woods, they 
had a view of the Gambia, which was here a hun- 
dred yards broad, and had a regular tide, contrary 
to what was usually supposed to take place above 
Barsaconda. At Tambico, a violent altercation 
