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ding, Kaarta, and Bambarra, was marked by ruin- 
ed towns and villages. Here died the last of the 
forty asses purchased at St Jago, and which were 
of a much superior quality to those collected on 
the road. On the 6th August, after leaving a vil- 
lage called Koolihorri, three of the men lay down, 
unable to proceed, and on the 9th one of them 
died. The same day they had to pass a very rapid 
stream, called the Ba Woolli. The baggage was 
easily transported, by means of a canoe ; but a num- 
ber of the asses had very nearly been drowned. On 
the 10th, Mr Anderson, brother-in-law to Mr 
Park, became extremely ill, and was got on with 
very great difficulty, both on that and the follow- 
ing days. 
On the 12th August, as the party were proceeds 
ing, they heard, on their left, a noise resembling 
the barking of a large mastiff, but ending in a hiss, 
like what Mr Park calls the Jijffof a cat. Another 
and nearer bark was soon heard, and presently a 
third, accompanied by a growl. A hundred yards 
farther, at an opening in the bushes, three lions 
were seen advancing towards them. They were 
very large, and came bounding over the long grass, 
following, but abreast of each other. Mr Park ad- 
vanced to meet them ; and, when they were at a 
long shot, he fired at the centre one. He did not 
conceive himself to have struck it ; but they all 
stopped, looked at each other, and then bounded 
