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i great, and worthy of Mansong." He express- 
ed, moreover, so earnest a wish to see the rest of 
the stores, that Park was forced .to "make a reluc- 
tant exhibition of them. Modibinne said there 
was nothing that was bad, and repaired to Sego. 
He returned on the 25th, with a most favourable 
answer from Mansong. That monarch assured 
Park of protection, in travelling through his domi- 
nions in any direction. He added full permission 
to build his boat at Samee, Sego, Sansanding, or 
Jinnie. Park chose Sansanding, as affording more 
quiet, and as meeting the desire, which Mansong 
so uniformly manifested, of avoiding a personal in- 
terview. 
In the voyage downwards, our traveller com- 
plains extremely of the intensity of the heat, which, 
at one time, appeared to him sufficient to have roast- 
ed a sirloin. On the 2d of October, two of the 
soldiers died. He did not touch at Sego, but pro- 
ceeded direct to the place of his destination. 
Sansanding is a large town, said to contain eleven 
thousand inhabitants, and is the theatre of a very 
considerable trade. The market place is an ex- 
tensive square, constantly crowded with people, and 
where the different articles are exposed on stalls 
shaded by mats from the heat of the sun. Each 
stall contains generally only one article ; some beads 
only ; some indigo in balls ; others wood ashes in 
balls y others Houssa and Jinnie cloth ; and one 
