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board. The only letters of confequence 
which the committee have receivea, are, 
ene from Mr. Park, dated Pifania, 1ft- 
December, 17953 and two from Dr, 
Laidley to Mr. James: Willis (the in- 
tended conful to Senegambia) commu- 
nicated by him to the committee, the 
one dated the 23d of May, and the other 
the 1ft of Auguft, 1796. From thefe 
communications, the fubfcribers will per- 
ceive, that well-grounded hopes may be 
entertained, that the views ot the Affo- 
ciation will, in a great degree, be {peed- 
ily accomplithed. Should Mr. Park 
have happily efcaped the dangers inci- 
dent to the undertaking sand the climate, 
his return may be daily expeéted ; and 
the knowledge he muft have acquired, 
cannot but be highly interelting and im- 
portant. 

The following are Copies of thefe Letiers. 
‘GENTLEMEN, Pifanta, Dic. 1, 1795. 
‘ You need not be furprifed at my 
jong fiay in Gambia, for, 1 affure you, 
that this isthe firft opportunity that has 
prefented itfelf fince my arrival; and it 
happens very fortunately for me, as I 
am now-greatly recovered from a long 
and painful ficknefs, that confined me 
to the houfe, or bed, during the greater 
part of the rains. 
‘ As Mr. Willis is not yet arrived, I 
muft have loft the travelling feafon for 
this year, had not Dr. Laidley, who has, 
On every occafion, feconded the laudable 
defigns of the Affociation, given me 
every affiftance in his power, and pro- 
vided me with two attendants, an horfe, 
two affes, and every thing neceffary for 
the journey. 
‘ One of my attendants is a refident 
of the place ; he fpeaks good Englith; 
and goes as my interpreter. My terms 
with him are ten bars per month, from 
the time he leaves Pifania till his return; 
five bars per month to his wife, during 
his abfence ; and, if he accompanies me 
as far as Sego, he is to receive the price 
of two prime flaves on his return. The 
other is one of Dr. Laidley’s own fer- 
yants; he has always behaved in the 
_moft faithful manner; and the doétor 
has offered him, as a reward for going 
with me, his freedom, when he returns. 
A blackimith and his fon likewife ac- 
company us; they have been employed 
by the doétor for two years, and are now 
going to their native town, Jumbo, in 
the kinedom of Karrta. 
Monraiy Mac. XXIV, 
New Difcoveries, Gee in Africa | 371 
‘ Wich this fmall, but fele&t, party, I 
fhall take my departure, to-morrow morn-- 
ing, from Pifania. It is my intention to 
travel with as much expedition as poffi- 
bie, till I have crofled the Senegal, and 
got into the kingdom of Caffon. I ie 
then think the moft troublefome part o 
this journey is over, and take the firft 
opportunity of writing to the Affoci- 
ation, 
‘ As all my former communications 
have fallen intothe hands of the French, 
I thall here repeat fome of the moft ma- 
terial points cf information contained in 
them. I thall begin, by enumerating 
the days’ journies between this and 
Sego, by the northern route, which is 
the route commonly ufed by the Slatees, 
and that by which I fhall travel. They 
are as follow: From Pifania, Coota, 
Cunda, Woolli, Color, Tambacunda, No- 
mataba, Jalice, firft town of Bondou; 
Fittayeraboy, Cufang, Dibboo, Goolem- 
boo, or Galambob, latt town of Bendon; 
Gung-gadi, on the northern bank of the 
Senegal, in the {mall kingdom of Cajaga; 
Kirifnani, firt town of Caffon; Saboo- 
fura, Cooniakari, Soomma. Comoroo, Sa- 
impo, the laft town of Caffon, ficuated at 
the bottom of the Banbara mountains ; 
Karrunculla, Gemmoo, or Kimmoo (for 
the G founds hard) Fangoomba, Dib- 
bong- Meiffang, Seco, Kariabejanga, 
Comba, Dubbila, laft town of Karrta, 
Pampara, firft of Sego, Nyamoo, Glun- 
gorrollo, Dampa, Finimarboo, Scracor- 
ro, Faniinboo, Wooloocomboo, Doolig- 
keeboo, Diggani, Sego. . 
* Diggani ftands on the northern bank 
of the Joliba, oppofite to Sego, wh: is 
upon the fouthern bank of that river. 
The Joiiba is very broad here, but fo 
fhallow, that people can wade over it in 
a dry feafon; bur the king would be 
much offended at any merchant that 
croffed the river in this manner ; for, the 
old fifhermen are entirely fupported by 
the {mail fares they receive for carrying 
paflengers over the river. 
‘The route from Sego to Genné, lies 
along the fouthern bank of Joliba, by 
the places mentioned on the chart of the 
Affociation. And from Genné they 
proceed, by water, to Tombuétoo; few 
of the Slatees go farther than Sego, and 
none, I believe, farther than Genné. 
The only perfon I have yet feem who has _ 
been at Tombuétoo, was an old priett 5 
he reprefents it as a very large town ; 
and fays, that Houffa is thirty days by 
land, and forty-five by water, to the 
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