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Badoo, and Tambacunda. They saw at a dis- 
tance the hills of Foota Jallo, between which, and 
a castellated mountain, called Muianta, the Gam- 
bia was seen descending. This river is called by the 
natives the Ba Deema. The travellers proceeded 
by Julifunda and Baniserlie, and on the 8th 
crossed the Faleme. On the same day they ex- 
perienced, for the first time, a tornado, or storm 
of violent rain, accompanied with thunder and 
lightning, which proved for them the beginning 
of sorrows. In three days twelve men were on 
the sick list, and the ground being covered with 
water to the depth of three inches, left no hope 
but of augmented distress. The immediate effect 
of these storms was to produce an almost irresist- 
ible propensity to sleep, and to make it impossible 
for them to refrain from lying down on the wet 
bundles, or even on the ground. 
At Shrondo, Mr Park obtained an opportunity 
of seeing the process of washing for gold. A 
woman went with him to a meadow, where there 
were about thirty pits, similar to those described 
in treating of Bambouk. Beside them were lying 
heaps of sand and gravel, to be conveyed to the 
wash-pits, which were shallow, circular, and lined 
with clay. All the machinery required, consisted 
in two calabashes, one large, into which the gravel 
was put ; the other small, employed in pouring in 
the water. The sand being then covered with 
