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devotions, and eat eggs. Mr Park assured them, 
that he had no objection to eat eggs, if they 
would give him eggs to eat. When a number of 
eggs were brought by the landlord, they were 
much surprised that he could not eat them raw, 
imagining that Europeans subsisted chiefly on 
this food. But when the landlord discovered 
that a white man ate the same kind of food as 
other persons, he entertained him very kindly 
with plain substantial mutton. When the Moors 
had departed, he requested him to write a sa- 
phie, for, said he, " if a Moor's saphie be good, 
a white man's must be better." Upon which 
Mr Park furnished him with one of the best he 
could recollect, by writing the Lord's prayer on a 
thin board, with a reed. On the S5th of July he 
left Sansanding, and proceeded by Sibili, Nyara, 
and Nyamee, to Modiboo. Between Nyamee and 
Modiboo, he observed the guide examining the 
bushes with great caution, and, inquiring the 
cause, was informed that the woods were infested 
with lions. As they were crossing an open plain, 
interspersed with bushes, the guide suddenly 
wheeled round, and exclaimed, " A very large 
lion !" As Mr Park's horse was much fatigued, 
they rode slowly along, and began to think the 
alarm groundless, when he perceived a large red 
lion, couching with his head between his paws. 
Mr Park immediately disengaged his feet from the 
