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MR PARK'S SECOND JOURNEY. 
tributaries of the Senegal, is said to be rugged and 
grand beyond all power of description. 
At Konkromo Mr Park had an opportunity of 
seeing the mode of smelting gold. The metal 
was put into a crucible of common red clay dried 
in the sun, and then fused by the application of 
bellows to a charcoal fire. The melted gold was 
then poured into a furrow, and, when cold, was 
hammered into a square bar. After being again 
heated, it was twisted, by two pairs of pincers, into 
the form of a ring.. 
The party crossed with difficulty the Ba Fing, 
which is here a large navigable river. One of the 
men was drowned, in consequence of a canoe over- 
setting. The people here, says Mr Park, are all 
thieves. Scarcely a day now passed, without some 
one of the men either dying or being left behind. 
At Koeena, on the 2d of July, they had an alarm 
from three animals whom they at first supposed to 
be wild boars, but who proved to be young lions. 
After prowling about all day, they at midnight at- 
tacked the asses, which all broke their ropes, and 
rushed in among the tents. One of the lions 
came so near, that the sentry made a cut at him 
with his sword ; however, they did not succeed in 
doing any mischief. 
After passing the villages of Kombandi and 
Fonilla, Park came to the Wonda, called also the 
Ba Woollima. Though swelled two feet, it was 
