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cent war, three-fourths of it were now in ruins. 
Here a prodigious shower came on, which not 
only wetted themselves completely, but threatened 
to destroy great part of the merchandise ; and it 
was necessary to employ two days in drying it. 
They came next to Sobee, a town which had been 
twice destroyed in the course of the last ten years. 
The whole route, being on the frontier between 
Man ding, Kaarta, and Bambarra, was marked by 
ruined towns and villages. Here died the last of 
the forty asses purchased at St Jago, and which 
were of a much superior quality to those collected 
on the road. On the 6th August, after leaving 
a village called Koolihorri, three of the men lay 
down, unable to proceed, and on the 9th one of 
them died. The same day they had to pass a 
very rapid stream, called the Ba Woolli. The 
baggage was easily transported, by means of a 
canoe ; but a number of the asses had very near- 
ly been drowned. On the 10th, Mr Anderson, 
brother-in-law to Mr Park, became extremely ill, 
and was got on with very great difficulty, both on 
that and the following days. 
On the 12th August, as the party were proceed- 
ing, they heard, on their left, a noise resembling 
the barking of a large mastiff, but ending in a hiss, 
like what Mr Park calls the fuff of a cat. Ano- 
ther and nearer bark was soon heard, and pre- 
sently a third, accompanied by a growl. A hun- 
