KIRWANNY— TENDA — ^WOOLLI* 405 
the efTect of disease. From Baniserile they ad- 
vanced to Kirwanny, a large town situated in a 
valley. The inhabitants of this town are active 
and industrious, and their agriculture is more im- 
proved than any of their neighbours. Advancing 
through the Tenda wilderness, a rugged sloping 
country, covered with wood, on the second day 
they arrived at Tambacunda, a walled town, to 
the west of which there are no shea-trees. Here 
one of the Slatees had a wife ; but, on his arrival, 
he found her married to another, who refused to 
deliver her up, alleging that she was at liberty to 
marry, by an African law, which permits this 
privilege to any woman whose husband is absent 
three years without informing her he is alive. 
After holding a palaver on the subject, it was de- 
termined that the wife should take her choice of 
the two husbands. They departed from Tam- 
bacunda on the S6th, and after passing Tenda, 
and crossing the Nerico, the sixth stream which 
Mr Park had observed to fall into the Gambia 
from the N. E., their arrival in the country of the 
west, or the land of the setting sun, was celebrat- 
ed by the singing men. They soon after reached 
Seesukunda, in Woolli. The slaves had collected 
great quantities of the fruit of the nitta-tree, but 
were not permitted to bring it within the village, 
as the inhabitants beheved that some great ca- 
lamity would happen to the place whenever the 
