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proceeded to Kolor, a considerable town, and after two 
days’ march across a desert, entered the kingdom of 
Bondou. The natives are Foulahs, professing the 
Mohammedan religion; they carry on a brisk trade in 
ivory, when they are not engaged in agriculture. 
The traveller soon reached the Falerne river, the bed 
of which, near its source in the mountains of Dalaba, is 
very auriferous. He was received by the king at Fata- 
conda, the capital of Bondou, and had great difficulty in 
A TYPE OF NEGRO. 
convincing him that he travelled from curiosity. His 
interview with the wives of the monarch is thus de¬ 
scribed. Mungo Park says :— 
“ I had scarcely entered the court, when I was sur¬ 
rounded by the entire seraglio. Some begged me for 
physic, some for amber, and all were most desirous of try¬ 
ing the great African specific of blood-letting. They are 
ten or twelve in number, most of them young and hand¬ 
some, wearing on their heads ornaments of gold or pieces 
of amber. They rallied me a good deal upon different 
subjects, particularly upon the whiteness of my skin and 
