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park's first journey. 
ed as a slave for three months, when he was re- 
stored to his kingdom by the DameL 
On the 7th of May, Mr Park departed with 
the coffle from Malacotta, and traversing Kon- 
kodoo, " the hilly country^^^ which abounds in 
gold, and Satadoo, which had been much depo- 
pulated by the incursions of the Foulhas of Foota 
Jallo, he arrived at Baniserile, the capital of Den- 
tila, on the 13th. He obtained little information 
concerning the political state of these regions, 
which do not lie in so high a level as Manding, Jal- 
lonkadoo, Fooladoo, Gadou, and Kasson. The 
district containing these countries is the most ele- 
vated in Western Africa, descending rapidly on 
the east, but more gradually on the west. It is 
of a triangular form, extending about 330 miles 
on the south between Bambarra and Neola, and 
contracting to sixty or seventy in the space which 
is occupied by Kasson, between Kajaaga and 
Kaarta. Bambouk, Konkodoo, (termed Macanna 
by Labat), Satadoo, and Dentila, which occupy 
the place of Combregoudou, in that author, are 
situated on an inferior level, which extends to 
Kirwanny, where the country begins to descend 
rapidly to the west, and is denominated the land 
of the setting sun. At Dindikoo, in Konkodoo, 
Mr Park saw an Albino, or white negro ; his com- 
plexion was cadaverous, and his hair and skin of 
a dull white colour, considered by the negroes as 
