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plant extensively ; the soil is red earth. A smaller kingdom called 
Filladoo or Firrasoo, is in the neighbourhood. Five journies north 
of Doowarra is the Niger, and on an island, about a mile from the 
southern bank, is Jenne. The route from Kong to Jenne is the 
only one which has not been checked by Negro evidence, but I 
had reason to think well of the Moor who furnished it, who never 
contradicted himself, though repeatedly cross questioned during 
the four months I was at Coomassie. The places reported lo Mr, 
Park on this route, it is true, are none of them mentioned, but, pro- 
bably, the people who were insuperably adverse to his proceeding, 
were the least likely to satisfy his curiosity but by imposing on 
him.* Mr. Park in his route from Sego to Bsedoo, has a town 
called Doowassoo, only four joarnics from Sego ; but I was assured 
repeatedly that Doowarra is a powerful kingdom. In the first 
Mission, Mr. Park reported the kingdom of Gotto to be so close to 
the Niger, that its chief, Moosee, embarked on it to attack Jinnie, 
and Major Rennell has placed it accordingly : but, in the second, 
he writes, " one month's travel south of Baedoo,'" (which he makes 
30 journies southward of Sego) " through the kingdom of GottOj 
will bring the traveller to the country of the Christians, who have 
their houses on the banks of the Ba Sea Feena.'" He says the Ba 
Nimma rises in the Kong mountains south of Marraboo, but does 
not mention the kingdom of Kong in his route, which is about one 
moon's travel from the sea, as he has described Beedoo to be. 
* " To what degree the natives of Silla would have contradicted each other in their 
accounts of Tombuctoo, Park's short stay there could not have allowed him time to 
ascertain, even if his knowledge of their language had enabled him to understand their 
accounts as well as he did those of the slatees on the Gambia. 
" Several instances of the contradictory testimony of the Negroes occur in Park's 
travels, Jennie, for instance, is stated in his first Mission to be situated on the Niger, but 
on his second journey he renounces that opinion, on the apparently good authority of an 
.old Somonie (canoe man) who had been seven times at Tombuctoo." Adams's Editor. 
