WONDA — KAMALIAH* 
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to contain his clothes. The scarcity of provisions 
was so great, that mothers frequently sold one of 
their children to maintain the rest of the family. 
From Wonda he advanced to the villages of Ball- 
anti and Nemacoo, where he could obtain no pro- 
vision, as the people were almost starving. As it 
rained hard next day, he remained in the hut, 
where he was visited by Modi Lemina Taura, a 
negro trader, who brought him provisions, and 
conducted him next day to his own house at Kin- 
yetoo, where he remained a few days. Passing 
through Dosita he reached Mansia, a considerable 
town, where gold is collected. The Mansa sent 
him a little corn for supper, but demanded some- 
thing in return, and Mr Park answering that he 
had no article of value, he replied, " that his 
^* white skin should not protect him if he told 
" lies." Next day he arrived at Kamaliah, a small 
town situated at the bottom of some rocky hills, 
where gold is collected in consideraVjle quantities. 
The proper town is inhabited by the Kafirs, and 
the huts of the Bushreens are built at a little dis- 
tance, beside their missura or mosque, a square 
piece of levelled ground, surrounded by the trunks 
of trees. Here, in a country where famine pre- 
vailed, sickly and exhausted, with the rapid river 
Kokoro, and the gloomy wilds of Jallonkadoo 
before him, Mr Park thought he could almost 
point out the spot where he was to perish^ when 
