Park's First Good Meal in Weeks

Park followed the Niger River for about 300 miles to Bumaco, modern day Mali. There he was given rice and milk by a villager who asked Park to make him a Christian sapphi. A sapphi is like a charm, often an amulet. He would then be robbed yet again, losing virtually all of his possessions. But now it is time for Park to get sick again, because it is August, the rainy season,. Soon he was overcome by a terrible fever, just like the previous year.