tllNDIKOO — ^SULLO. 
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inhabitants, while the thunder rolls in awful gran- 
deur over their heads, can look from their tre- 
mendous precipices over all the wild and woody 
plain, which extends from the Faleme to the 
Black River. 
The anxiety of Mr Park for the fate of the 
expedition became now deeper every moment. 
Half of them were sick, or at least unfit for any 
vigorous exertion. The sick began to lie down, 
and refuse to proceed. Dreadful difficulty was 
experienced in driving the cattle up some of the 
rocky precipitous tracks. The natives, too, seeing 
the distressed situation of the party, began to avail 
themselves of it, by carrying off whatever was left 
unprotected. At a village called Serimanna, it 
was necessary to leave two of the men. At ano- 
ther called Gimbia, the natives attempted, by 
main force, to stop and plunder them ; but, on 
loaded muskets being presented, they were soon 
induced to desist, and Park very prudently gave 
a few presents, to induce them to treat well such 
of the party as might be obliged to return. Near 
a village called Sullo they observed a country, 
beautiful beyond imagination. It presented all 
the possible diversities of rock ; sometimes tower- 
ing up like ruined castles, spires, pyramids, &c. 
They passed one place so like a ruined Gothic 
abbey, that they halted a little before they could 
satisfy themselves that the niches, ruined stair- 
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