May 11th.--About noon arrived at Madina, the capital of the kingdom of Woolli. We unloaded our asses under a tree without the gates of the town, and waited till five o'clock before we could have an audience from his majesty. I took to the King a pair of silver mounted pistols, ten dollars, ten bars of amber, ten of coral. But, when he had looked at the present with great indifference for some time, he told me that he could not accept it; alleging, as an excuse for his avarice, that I had given a much handsomer present to the King of Kataba. It was in vain that I assured him of the contrary; he positively refused to accept it, and I was under the necessity of adding fifteen dollars, ten bars coral, ten amber, before his majesty would accept it. After all, he begged me to give him a blanket to wrap himself in during the rains, which I readily sent him. The other presents must all be proportionally great, and the sum of the whole presents at Woolli is as follows: To _the King_, A pair of pistols. Bars. Dollars 25 Amber 20 Coral 20 White baft 5 --- 70 bars. To Montamba _the King's own son_, Amber, 5 Coral 5 To Slatee Deena, Amber 1 Coral 5 To Sadoo, Jatta's son, Amber 5 Coral 5 To Samboo, Jatta's second son, Coral 5 To Whulliri, the Prime Minister, Dollars 2 Coral 5 To Dama, Whulliri's younger brother, Coral 5 To Soliman, the King's chief slave, Bars. Amber 4 Coral 4 To Dimba Serra, Coral 6 To different people, Coral 10 -- 71 To the King, 70 --- Total 140 bars. [Footnote: There is some mistake here; what Mr. Park calls 71, appears to be no more than 67; and even according to him, the total ought to be 141. The true amount is 67+70=137.] May 12th.--Had all the asses loaded by day-break, and at sun-rise, having obtained the King's permission, we departed from Woolli. Shortly after, we passed the town of Barraconda, where I stopped a few minutes to pay my respects to Jemaffoo Mamadoo, a very eminent Slatee. [Footnote: Mentioned in Park's Travels, p. 31.] We reached the village of Bambakoo at half past ten o'clock. Bought two asses, and likewise a bullock for the soldiers.