Volume 1

Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. With an account of a subsquent mission to that country in 1805 ... To which is added an account of the life of Mr. Park [by J. Whishaw] ... With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa / By Major Rennell.

Mungo Park

Date:: 1816

Credit: Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. With an account of a subsquent mission to that country in 1805 ... To which is added an account of the life of Mr. Park [by J. Whishaw] ... With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa / By Major Rennell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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own could authorize me to claim; were I not apprehensive that expectations havebeen formed by some of my subscribers, of discoveries to be unfolded, which I have not made, and of won- ders to be related, of which] am utterly ignorant. ‘There is danger that those who feel adisappoint- ment of this nature, finding less to astonish and amuse in my book, than they had promised to themselves beforehand, will not even allow me the little merit which I really possess. Painful as this circumstance may prove to my feelings, I shall console myself under it, if the distin-, guished persons, under whose auspices I entered on my mission, shall allow that I have executed the duties of it to their satisfaction ; and that they consider the Journal, which I have now the honour to present to them, to be, what 1 have en- deavoured to make it, an honest and faithful re- port of my proceedings and observations in their service, from the outset of my journey to its termination. M.. P:

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