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Show 74 PICTUR.:e 01" AFRlCA AT ROM.f;. " A little before sunset, I descended on the northwest side of a ridge of hills, and as I was looking about for a convenient tree, under which to pass the night, for I had no hopes of reaching any town, I descend~d into a delightful valky, and soon afterwards arrived at a rom:tntic vii. !age called Kooma. " I soon found myself surroundeil by a circle of the harmless villagers. They asked me a thousand questions about mr country' and in return for my information brought com and milk for myself, and grass for my horse; kindled a fire in the hut where I was to sleep, and appeared 'very anxious to serve me." Having been robbed by banditti, and stripped qnite naked, while passing through a vast wilderness, he says- " Some of them went away with my horse, and theremainder stood considering, whether they should leave me quite naked, or allow me something to shelter me from the sun. Humanity at last prevailed; they returned me the worst of the two shirts, and a pair of trowsers, and as they went away one of them threw back my hat." Notwithstanding this humanity, their conduct, t.1.kcn together, was certHinly savage and unjust, tO"':'\'ards a poor defenceless white tnan ; yet, not so cruel or barbarous as if they had shot him, or cut ofl'his head, or bound him to a post and ~eft him, or dragg;ed him till he 'va' dead at the tails of thetr horses, or made a slave during life of him.* In this situation, as Mr. Park was about to yield to des- * It is a notorious and amicting truth, thnt in l.hc United Stales, the_head of a poor black man has been cut off with impunity, by a whale man (or master;) that black men have Oeen wantonly sh~l by white men ; and that a free b'lack man (whom J have seen myself) was hoppl~d, and being unsuccessfully offered for sale as a slav~, "Wtl.s bounil to a post in the winter, and left wiU10ut fool! until his feet ~ere frozen, where he would probaltly have perished had he not ~xtritatea blmseJf by his own struggles. ' PICTURE OF AFRICA AT HOME. 7S pair, expecting to perish, he deri,·ed consolation and fresh courage, f~·om beholding the beauties of the works of God, m vcgetatwn, and consequent religious reflections- " I started up, (says he,) and disreg-arding both hunger and fat1guc, tra\'clled forwards, assured that relief was at hand; and I was not disappointed. In a shmt time I came to a small village, &c. and at sunset arrived at Sibiloodoo. 'When I entered tlte town the people gathered round me and followed me into the balloon, '~here I was presented to the Dooty or chtd man, who JS here called mansa ":Inch usu:tlly signifies king. I rebtcd to the mansa th~ ctrcumstance of my having been robbed of my horse and apparel. He contmuecl smoaking his pipe all the time I was ~pcakmg ; _but, I had no sooner finished, than, taking the ptpc_ from hts mouth, ~nd to~sing up the sleeve of his cloak \\'tth an md1g-rwnt mr, " szt down, (said he,) you shall have every tlnng restored to you-I have sworn it" -~nd then turning to an attendant, " give the white man (smd heJ. a draught of water; ancl with the first light of the mon~mg, go over the hills, and inform the Dooty of B~mmakoo, that a poor wlute man, the king ofBambarra s stranger, has been robbed by the king of Fooladoo's people." " I little expected in my forlorn condition, to meet with a man who could thus feel for my sufferings. I hParfl tl!an~ed the ma_nsa _lor his kindness, and accepted !;is {f. Vttahon to remam wzth l~Im until the return of the messenger. I was conducted mto a hut, and had some victuals sent me; but the crowd of people which assembled to see me, all of whom commiserated my misfortunes a d venled imprecations ag>~inst the Foulahs, (by who:U ~e '~s robbed,) prevented me from sleeping until past midmght." ." ~cpt. . 6th-Two people arrived from SibiloodOQ, bnngmg wtth them my horse and clothes." · On taking leave of his " hospitable landlord," who had |