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Lander’s Travels

CHAPTER VI
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Provisions were here so plentiful, that the shepherds seldom asked any return for the refreshment a traveller required.

At sunset the travellers reached Feesurah, where they rested.
Mr.Park and his attendants remained at Feesurah, during the whole of the following day, for the purpose of learning more exactly the situation of affairs, before they ventured further.

Their landlord asked so exorbitant a sum for their lodging, that Mr.Park refused to submit to his demand, but his attendants, frightened at the reports of approaching war, would not proceed unless he was satisfied, and persuaded him to accompany them to Kemmoo for their protection on the road.

This Mr.Park accomplished by presenting his host with a blanket to which he had taken a liking.
Matters being thus amicably adjusted, our travellers again set out on the 11th, preceded by their landlord of Feesurah on horseback.

This man was one of those negroes who observe the ceremonial part of Mahometanism, but retain all their pagan superstitions, and even drink strong liquors; they are called Johars or Jowers, and are very numerous in Kaarta.


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