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to join the Niolo Koba. On the 26th, having traversed an uneven 
and rugged country, he reached the banks of a stream, indicated 
under the name of Bay-Creek; the position of which hethus deter- 
mined : 13° 32' 45 ' north latitude, 10" 59 west longitude, (13' 19 
west of Paris.) On the 28th he was at Badou, in 13" 32' north. 
Two of his companions perceived from the top of a hill, the Gambia 
to the south, four miles distant; it ran from S. E. to N. W. as far 
the mountains contiguous to Badou ; it then turned to the south. 
The Negroes called it Ba-Dima, or the river which is always a 
river, that is to say, never dry. Mungo Park pursued his route to 
the east, and saw this river no more. A few days afterwards he 
took an elevation at Mambari, situated between two branches of 
the Gambia, and in 13° 22' 40' north latitude. From this place he 
ascertained by observation the position of several mountains ; the 
Meianta, distant sixteen miles to the S. t. E., the Sambakalla to the 
south, and those of Fouta Diallon to the S. W. ^. W., S. W. and 
S. W. S. by the compass. The Gambia, he adds in his narrative, 
flows to the S. W. and passes through an opening which is between 
the Meianta, and the mountains of Fouta Diallon, which resemble 
those of the island of Madeira, but are not so pointed. 
According to these data, the course of the Gambia has been 
placed a degree further to the north, than it has been in the maps 
hitherto published, but at the same time, that part of the river 
situated between Nittakora, and Badou is otherwise delineated 
than on the maps of Mungo Park. That traveller did not see this 
river between those two points, and proceeded through a moun- 
tainous country, watered by some of its branches. Now, M. 
