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park's first journey. 
didate retired to Gedingooma ; and as Daisy, 
who had lived in friendship with both the bro- 
thers, refused to deliver him up, though he did 
not interfere in the contest, the king of Kasson 
joined some disaffected Kaartans in a predatory 
excursion into Kaarta. Daisy retaliated this at- 
tack, by surprising three large villages of Kasson, 
and putting every effective man to the sword, 
and, among the rest, many of his own traitorous 
subjects. Upon this, the Kaartan tribes, by 
whom he had been deserted, commenced hosti- 
lities against their former prince, but were oblig- 
ed to retreat at the approach of Daisy, when the 
war was terminated by the rainy season. 
Jarra, often pronounced Yarra and Yarba, 
where Mr Park had now arrived, is a large town, 
the houses of which are built of stone, intermix- 
ed with clay instead of mortar, the majority of 
the inhabitants of which are negroes. Here he 
resided fourteen days in the house of a Gambia 
slatee, (upon whom he had an order from Dr 
Laidley for a debt,) till a messenger returned 
from Ali the Moorish prince, to whom he had 
been sent to solicit permission to travel through 
his country. On the S6th of February, one of 
All's slaves arrived to conduct him to Goomba j 
and as all his attendants, except his faithful boy 
Demba, refused to advance into the Moorish 
country, he delivered a duplicate of his papers to 
