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that if he could subsist upon the country victuals, 
he would maintain him till the termination of the 
rains, and conduct him to the Gambia, where he 
might reward him as he thought proper. Mr Park 
offered to pay him the value of a prime slave, 
which he agreed to accept, and immediately ap- 
propriated a hut to his use, and, notwithstanding 
the malicious insinuations of the invidious Slatees, 
continued to treat him with the kindest attention. 
But no accommodation could suspend the pro- 
gress of the fever, which had gradually acquired 
strength, and now became so violent, that, during 
five weeks, he was confined to his hut, and so de- 
bilitated that he could hardly stand upright. In 
the beginning of December, a Serawoolli Slatee 
arrived from Sego with slaves, one of whom asked 
Mr Park to give him some food ; and, upon his 
answering that he was a stranger, the slave replied, 
" I gave you victuals when you were hungry. 
** Have you forgot the man who brought you 
** milk at Karankalla adding with a sigh, " the 
" irons were not then upon my legs." Mr Park 
immediately recollected one of his Kaartan friends, 
who had been taken by the Bambarrans, and gave 
him some earth-nuts, which he received from Kar- 
fa. On the 19th of December, Karfa went to 
purchase slaves at Kancaba, a large town on the 
Niger, where an extensive commerce in gold and 
slaves is carried on. During his absence he com- 
