[Lander’s Travels by Robert Huish]@TWC D-Link bookLander’s Travels CHAPTER VI 15/33
Mr.Park waited accordingly, and in about three hours the boy returned with the negro.
In the afternoon, they reached a town called Samamingkoos, inhabited chiefly by Foulahs. On the 4th they arrived at a large town called Sampaka, where, on hearing that a white man was come into the town, the people, who had been keeping holiday and dancing, left of this pastime, and walking in regular order two by two, with the music before them, came to Mr. Park.
They played upon a flute, which they blowed obliquely over the end, and governed the holes on the sides with their fingers.
Their airs were plaintive and simple. Mr.Park stopped at Sampaka for the sake of being accompanied by some of the inhabitants, who were going to Goomba; but in order to avoid the crowd of people, whom curiosity had assembled round him, he visited in the evening a negro village called Samee, where he was kindly received by the dooty, who killed two fine sheep, and invited his friends to the feast.
On the following day his landlord insisted on his staying till the cool of the evening, when he would conduct him to the next village.
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