He took up his abode in the same hut with Mr.Park, and appeared be a well-informed man, acquainted with the Arabic and Bambarra tongues; he had travelled through many kingdoms; he had visited Houssa, and lived some years at Timbuctoo.

Upon Mr.Park's inquiring the distance from Walet to Timbuctoo, the shereef, learning that he intended to travel to that city, said, _it would not do_, for Christians were there considered as the _devil's children_, and enemies to the prophet.
On the 24th, another shereef arrived, named Sidi Mahomed Moora Abdallah, and with these two men Mr.Park passed his time with less uneasiness than formerly, but as his supply of victuals was now left to slaves, over whom he had no control, he was worse supplied than during the past month.

For two successive nights, they neglected to send the accustomed meal, and the boy, having begged a few handfuls of ground nuts, from a small negro town near the camp, readily shared them with his master.

Mr.Park now found that when the pain of hunger has continued for some time, it is succeeded by languor and debility, when a draught of water, by keeping the stomach distended, will remove for a short time every sort of uneasiness.

The two attendants, Johnson and Demba, lay stretched upon the sand in torpid slumber, and when the kouskous arrived, were with difficulty awakened.