454 MR PARK'S SECOND JOURNEY. 
away. Mr Park, having reloaded his piece, on look- 
ing up, saw the last of them march slowly off among 
the bushes. Half a mile farther, he heard another 
growl; but they did notagain make their appearance. 
Soon after, Mr Park found himself entangled 
in a species of ground peculiar to Africa. A 
stratum of stiff yellow clay is broken into fis- 
sures, fourteen or twenty feet deep, with very 
steep sides. About dark, Mr Park was so en- 
tangled in these horrid gullies, that he was obliged 
to pass the night in one of them. Separate as he 
was from the rest of his party, and with Mr An- 
derson in a high fever, this threatened to be pro- 
ductive of great distress. His companion, how- 
ever, slept wonderfully well, and in the morning, 
he rejoined the others, who had spent the night in 
the same manner, at about half a mile's distance. 
On the 15th, at a village called Dombila, Mr Park 
met Karfa Taura, from whom he had experienced 
such signal kindness in his former journey. Kar- 
fa, having heard that a coffle was travelling through 
the country, conducted by a person of the name 
of Park, came from Boori, a distance of six days' 
journey, to meet his old friend. 
After leaving Dombila, Mr Park came to a 
. district abounding in corn, which proved very em- 
barrassing, from the difficulty of preventing the 
asses from eating any portion of it. According to 
the law of Africa, if an ass devours a single blade* 
