The principal articles, which were cloth of Houssa or Jenne, antimony, beads, and indigo, were each arranged in stalls, shaded by mats from the heat of the sun.

There was a separate market for salt, the main staple of their trade.

The whole presented a scene of commercial order and activity totally unlooked for in the interior of Africa.
Mansong had promised to furnish two boats, but they were late in arriving, and proved very defective.

In order to raise money, it was necessary to sell a considerable quantity of goods; nor was it without much trouble, that the two skiffs were finally converted into the schooner Joliba, forty feet long, six broad, and drawing only one foot of water, being the fittest form for navigating the Niger downward to the ocean.
During Mr.Park's stay at Sansanding, he had the misfortune to lose his brother-in-law, Mr.Anderson, to whom his attachment was so strong as to make him say, "No event which took place during the journey ever threw the smallest gloom over my mind, till I laid Mr.
Anderson in the grave.

I then felt myself as if left a second time, lonely and friendless amidst the wilds of Africa." Although the party were now reduced to five Europeans, one of whom was deranged, and although the most gloomy anticipations could not fail to arise in the mind of Mr.Park, his firmness was in no degree shaken.