loudly three times.  Mr. Park began to suspect it was a signal for some of his associates to attack the travellers, but the man assured him it was done to ascertain the successful event of their journey.  He then dismounted, laid his spear across the road and having said several short prayers, again gave three loud whistles; after which he listened, as if expecting an answer, but receiving none, said they might proceed without fear, for no danger actually existed.

On the morning of the 12th, they departed from Karan Kalla, and it being but a short day’s journey to Kemmoo, they travelled slower than usual, and amused themselves by collecting eatable fruits near the road side.  Thus engaged, Mr. Park had wandered a short distance from his people, when two negro horsemen, armed with muskets, came galloping from the thickets.  On seeing them, he made a full stop; the horsemen did the same, and all three seemed equally surprised and confounded.  As he approached them, their fears increased, and one casting upon him a look of horror, rode off at full speed; while the other, in a panic of fear, put his hand over his eyes, and continued muttering prayers, till his horse, apparently without his knowledge, slowly conveyed him after his companion.  About a mile to the westward they fell in with Mr. Park’s attendants, to whom they related a frightful story:  their fears had dressed him in the flowing robes of a tremendous spirit, and one of them affirmed, that a blast of wind, cold as water, poured down upon him from the sky, while he beheld the dreadful apparition.

About two o’clock, Mr. Park entered the capital of Kaarta, which is situate in the midst of an open plain, the country for two miles round being cleared of wood.  They immediately proceeded to the king’s residence, and Mr. Park, being surrounded by the astonished multitude, did not attempt to dismount, but sent in the landlord of Feesurah, and Madi Konko’s son, to acquaint his majesty of his arrival.  The king replied, that he would see the stranger in the evening, and ordered an attendant to procure him a lodging, and prevent annoyance from the crowd.  Mr. Park was conducted into a large hut, in which he had scarcely seated himself, than the mob entered, it being found impossible to keep them out, and when one party had seen him, and asked a few questions, they retired, and another succeeded, party after party, during the greater part of the day.

The king, whose name was Koorabarri, now sent for Mr. Park, who followed the messenger through a number of courts, surrounded with high walls.  Mr. Park was astonished at the number of the king’s attendants:  they were all seated, the men on the king’s right hand, and the women and children on the left.  The king was not distinguished from his subjects by any superiority of dress, being seated on a leopard’s skin, spread upon a bank of earth, about two feet high.  Mr. Park seated himself upon the ground before him, and relating the causes that induced him