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i»ARK's FIRST JOURNEY. 
inhabitants lived upon the nitta. On the 4th 
they arrived at Medina, and on the day following 
at Jindey, where Mr Park had left Dr Laidley 
eighteen months before. Here Karfa left his 
slaves, after hiring huts for their accommodation, 
and a piece of land, on which to employ them 
for raising provisions for their subsistence ; and 
proceeded with one of the Foulhas of the coffle 
towards Pisania. Mr Park could not leave, with- 
out sensible emotion, those unfortunate persons 
doomed to a life of slavery in a foreign land, who 
had often alleviated his sufferings, when their 
own were infinitely greater, who, of their own 
accord, had often brought him water to quench 
his thirst, and formed his bed of leaves in the 
wilderness. At Pisania, he was received like 
one returned from the dead by Dr Laidley, as all 
the traders on the Gambia had been informed 
that he was murdered by the Moors of Ludamar. 
Dr Laidley undertook to discharge all pecuniary 
engagements which he had entered into since his 
departure from the Gambia, and assured Karfa 
that he would assist him to dispose of his slaves 
to the best advantage. This respectable negro 
was surprised when he was informed that he 
would receive goods to the amount of double the 
sum which he had been promised by Mr Park, 
who likewise sent a handsome present to the 
schoolmaster at Malacotta. But the superiority 
