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maliah, and proceeded by Bala and Maraboo to 
Worumbang, the frontier village of Handing, 
Next day they crossed the Kokoro, a branch of 
the Senega], and arrived at Kinytakooro in Jal- 
lonkadoo. This town they entered in procession, 
with six singing men, who belonged to the coffle, 
in front, followed by the free men, after whom 
came the slaves, fastened by fours to one rope, 
with a spearman betwixt every four ; in the rear 
advanced the domestic slaves, followed by the 
free women, and the wives of the Slatees. At 
the distance of 100 yards from the gate, the sing- 
ing men raised a song, in which they celebrated 
the hospitality of the inhabitants to strangers, and 
their partiality to the Mandingoes. When they 
arrived at the Bentang, the inhabitants assembled 
to hear their history, which the singing men re- 
lated, in a retrograde order, from their arrival to 
their departure from Kamaliah ; after which they 
were accommodated with lodgings and provisions 
in the houses of the natives, by whom they were 
individually invited. On the S3d they entered 
the Jallonka wilderness, covered with thick prim- 
eval forests, yet beautifully variegated with hill 
and dale. Through these wilds they passed ra- 
pidly with forced marches, without seeing any 
human habitation for five days, during which 
they endured every species of fatigue, and were 
only stimulated to perseverance by the danger of 
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