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at Teesee, and announced to the commandant 
Tiggity Sego, the father of Demba, that, unless 
the people of Kasson should embrace the Maho- 
metan religion, and demonstrate their conversion 
by saying eleven public prayers, the king of 
Foota Torra would, in the approaching war, unite 
his arms with those of Kajaaga. Upon mature 
deliberation, the inhabitants of Teesee, consider- 
ing that much less injury could result from the 
repetition of public prayers than from the armies 
of Foota Torra, resolved to comply with the con- 
dition, which was accordingly received as a suffi- 
cient proof of their conversion. At the return of 
Demba, Mr Park resolved to proceed immediate- 
ly to Kooniakary, the capital ; but, before he was 
allowed to depart from Teesee, he was plundered 
of half his remaining goods by his obliging friend, 
under the double pretext of duties and presents. 
Leaving Teesee on the morning of January 10th, 
after crossing Krieko, a branch of the Senegal, 
near a large town named Madina, they arrived, 
on the second day, at Jumbo, the native town of 
the blacksmith, whose brother came out to meet 
him accompanied by a singing-man, and bring- 
ing a horse to him, that he might enter his native 
town like a person of consequence. As soon as 
they approached the town, they were joined by a 
number of the inhabitants, shouting, jumping, and 
singing, and the minstrel began a song in praise 
