park's second journey. 
in two calabashes, one large, into which the gravel 
was put ; the other small, employed in pouring 
in the water. The sand being then covered with 
water, and careful] j crumbled down, was variously 
agitated in the calabash, till, the lighter parts 
being thrown out, there remained only a black 
substance, called gold-rust. After a little farther 
agitation, the grains of gold began to appear. In 
two pounds of gravel there were found twenty- 
three particles, though some of them were very 
small. The quantity of gold-rust was forty times 
that of the gold. The woman assured Park, we 
suspect with exaggeration, that they often found 
pieces of gold as large as the fist. The washing 
takes place only at the beginning and end of the 
rains. 
From Shrondo, the travellers proceeded along 
the mountains of Konkodoo to Dindikoo. Here 
they found also a number of gold pits, sunk to 
the depth of about twelve feet, with notches in 
the sides to serve the purpose of ladders. They 
observed, along the banks of a rivulet, a yellow 
and rusty-coloured sand, in which the gold was 
contained. The mountains here exhibited very 
steep precipices, of a coarse species of red granite. 
They are cultivated to the summit ; and the vil- 
lages appeared to Mr Park romantic beyond any 
thing he had ever seen. They are built in the 
most delightful glens of the mountains ; and the 
