gourinon

Updated: May 6, 2025

We came to before Carmasse, and gave the Chief one piece of baft. We went on and anchored before Gourinon. Mr. Park sent me on shore with forty thousand cowries to buy provisions. I went and bought rice, onions, fowls, milk, &c. and departed late in the evening.

Mungo Park - The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805