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park's first journey. 
water from the sky. At Kemmoo he met with 
the most hospitable reception from Daisy Koora- 
barri, king of Kaarta, whose character was not 
tarnished by any of those acts of rapacity which 
had marked the conduct of the other African 
princes. As all intercourse between Kaarta and 
Bambara had been interrupted, and a residence 
in Kaarta was equally dangerous to Mr Park and 
disagreeable to Daisy the king, who dreaded the 
imputation of murdering a white man, he chose 
the only remaining route to Bambara, through 
the kingdom of Ludamar, equally hazardous and 
circuitous, where Major Houghton had already 
perished. On February 13th he departed from 
Kemmoo, and proceeded with an escort to Fun- 
ingkedy, where he had an opportunity of observ- 
ing the hardiness of the Moors, five of whom, 
armed with muskets, drove off a number of cattle 
belonging to the inhabitants, and passed within 
pistol-shot of 500 of the townsmen, collected 
under the walls, who scarcely made a shew of re- 
sistance. One of the herdsmen, whose leg was 
fractured by a shot, died in the hands of the 
Bushreens, who attempted to smuggle him into 
Paradise, by teaching him, before his exit, to 
pronounce the Mahometan confession of faith. 
There is but o?ie God, and Mahomet is his prophet. 
The spectators formed a dismal chorus of screams 
and groans j but his disconsolate mother only 
