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which extends from the Faleme to the Black Ri- 
ver. 
The anxiety of Mr Park for the fate of the ex- 
pedition, became now deeper every moment. Half 
of them were sick, or at least unfit for any vigor- 
ous exertion. The sick began to lie down, and 
refuse to proceed. Dreadful difficulty was expe- 
rienced in driving the cattle up some of the rocky 
precipitous tracks. The natives, too, seeing the 
distressed situation of the party, began to avail 
themselves of it, by carrying off whatever was left 
unprotected. At a village called Serimanna, it 
was necessary to leave two of the men. At ano- 
ther called Gimbia, the people attempted, by main 
force, to stop and plunder them ; but, on loaded 
muskets being presented, they were soon induced 
to desist, and Park very prudently gave a few pre- 
sents, to induce them to treat well such of the 
party as might be obliged to return. Near a vil- 
lage called Sullo they observed a country, beauti- 
ful beyond imagination. It presented all the pos- 
sible diversities of rock ; sometimes towering up 
like ruined castles, spires, pyramids, &c. They 
passed one place so like a ruined Gothic abbey, that 
they halted a little before they could satisfy them- 
selves that the niches, ruined staircase, &c, were 
all natural rock. They observed, also, several lofty 
insulated cliffs of granite. In short, the whole 
country between the Ba Fing and Ba Lee, two 
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