I'ark's first journey. 
of a particular district appoints a day for the pur* 
pose, when all that are concerned assemble. A 
person may collect, in general, during the dry 
season, as much as is equal to the value of two 
slaves. Gold abounds every. where in Handing 
and Jallonkadoo, especially in the hilly district of 
Boori, or Bowriah, four journeys to the north- 
west of Karaaliah. The gold obtained is either 
used in commerce, or wrought into ornaments 
for the women. The standard of value in com- 
putation is the minkalli^ a quantity of gold in 
value about 10s. In Bambarra, Kaarta, Jallon- 
kadoo, and the woody districts, elephants are nu- 
merous, and often hunted, but never tamed. The 
iiegroes cannot believe that ships are built, and 
voyages undertaken, to procure ivory, only to be 
used for handles to knives, when pieces of wood 
would be equally convenient ; they therefore ima- 
gine that it is employed for some more important 
purpose, which is concealed from the negroes, lest 
they should raise its price. The system of domes- 
tic slavery prevails, in the same manner as on the 
coast ; and a free man may lose his liberty in war, 
resign it in famine, or forfeit it by insolvency, or 
by the crimes of murder, adultery, and sorcery. 
On the 19th of April, which had been fixed as 
a fortunate day, the coffle, consisting of 7^ per- 
sons, free men and slaves, after various prayers 
and superstitious ceremonies, departed from Ka- 
