As the party were numerous, he thought it prudent to comply with their demand, and presented them with four bars of tobacco.

At sunset he reached a village near Kootacunda.
The next day entering Woolli, he stopped to pay customs to an officer of the king.

Passing the night at a village called Tabajang: at noon the following day Park reached Medina, the capital of the king of Woolli's dominions.

It is a large place, and contains at least a thousand houses.

It is fortified in the common African manner by a high mud wall, and an outward fence of pointed stakes and prickly bushes, but the walls were neglected, and the outward fence had suffered considerably by being plucked up for fire-wood.