_Harper’s Stereotype Edition._ THE LIVES OF CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS. BY JAMES AUGUSTUS ST. JOHN. Wand’ring from clime to clime, observant stray’d, Their manners noted and their states survey’d. Pope’s Homer. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. NEW-YORK: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET, AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. 1832. CONTENTS. MUNGO PARK. Born 1771.--Died 1806. Born at Fowlshiels, near Selkirk--Receives a respectable education--Bound apprentice to a surgeon--Finishes his education at Edinburgh--Removes to London--Becomes known to Sir Joseph Banks--Appointed surgeon to the Worcester, East Indiaman--Engaged by the African Association to ascertain the course of the Niger--Sails from England--Arrives at Jillifica--Unknown species of fish--Alligators--Hippopotami--Pisania--Dr. Laidley--Studies the Mandingo language--Attacked by fever and delirium--Horrors of the rainy season in Africa--Wild beasts--Departs from Pisania--Surrounded by a body of the natives--Visits the King of Woolli--Obtains a guide--Elephant-hunters--Presents his coat to the chief of Fatteconda--Major Houghton--Limited territories of the African kings--Suggestion by which Africa may be effectually explored--Folly of despatching a solitary traveller--A night journey--Solitary forest--Dangers from wild beasts--Hospitable Mohammedan--Festival in honour of his arrival--Negro dances--Joag--Robbed of half his merchandise--Humanity of a female slave--Kasson--Robbed a second time--Affectionate meeting between the blacksmith and his relations--Maternal affection--Curiosity excited by the presence of a white man--Kooniakary--Audience with the king--Advised to retrace his footsteps--Romantic scenery--Cheapness of provisions--Superstition of his Mohammedan guide--Terrifies two negro horsemen--Is mistaken for a demon--Kaarta--Buglehorns formed of elephants’ teeth--Receives permission to depart--Jarra--Visits Ali the King of Ludamar--Despatches his journal to the Gambia--Is robbed--Barbarous treatment of Park by Ali and his Moorish countrymen--Placed in a hut with a wild boar--Is chosen royal barber--Pillaged of the remainder of his property--Superstitious curiosity--Is threatened with death or mutilation--Tortured for Moorish amusement--Robbed of his slave-boy--Affecting scene--Attempts to escape--Departs in the night--Stopped and robbed of his cloak--Nearly perishes from hunger and thirst--Storm in the desert--Multitude of frogs--Compelled to wander through the woods--Subsists on wild berries--Enters the kingdom of Bambarra--Mistaken for a Moor--Destitute condition--Comes within sight of the Niger--Joy at effecting the object of his mission--Sego--Refused entrance into the city--Humanity of a woman--Receives a present from the king of Bambarra--Sansanding--Hospitable reception--Is requested to write