He then called to some person, who answered from the other side, and a canoe with two boys came paddling from amongst the reeds.

Mr.Park gave the boys fifty kowries to ferry himself and his horse to the opposite shore, and in the evening, arrived at Taffara, a walled town, where he discovered that the language of the people was pure Mandingo.
On the 20th, Mr.Park stopped at a village called Sominoo, where he obtained some coarse food, prepared from the husks of corn, called _boo_.

On the same day he arrived at Sooha, where the dooty refused either to sell or to give him any provisions.

Mr.Park stopped a while to examine the countenance of this inhospitable man, and endeavoured to find out the cause of his visible discontent.

The dooty ordered a slave to dig a hole, and while the slave was thus employed, the dooty kept muttering and talking to himself, repeatedly pronouncing the words "_Dankatoo'_" (good for nothing), "_jankre lemen_," (a real plague).