a saphie, or charm--Camelopard--Encounters a lion--Moodiboo--Loses his horse--Reaches Silla--Exhausted with fatigue and sickness--Unable to proceed--Resolves to return--Song--Denied entrance into the village--In danger of being devoured by lions--Stripped and robbed by a band of peasants--Overwhelmed with grief and terror--Derives consolation from religious reflections--Sibidooloo--Regains his horse and other property--Unites himself to a slave caravan--Obtains a common prayer-book--Arrives at Pisania--Returns to England--Singular interview with his brother-in-law--Received with distinguished honour by the African Association--Publishes his travels--Returns to Scotland--Marries--Practises as a surgeon at Peebles--Becomes disgusted with an obscure life--Appointed chief conductor of a second expedition into the interior of Africa, under the sanction of the British government--Sails from Portsmouth--Arrives at Pisanio--Sets out with the party for the interior--Dreadfully stung by a swarm of bees--The journey nearly put an end to by this event--Rainy season--The whole party sick--Gold-pits--Soldiers become delirious--Numbers die, or are left behind--Attacked by wild beasts--Cut off by the natives--Guide attacked and wounded by a crocodile--Remarkable presence of mind--Robbed by two African princes--Encounters three lions--Arrives on the banks of the Niger--Opens a bazaar--Death of Mr. Scott--Mission reduced to a very small number--Death of Mr. Anderson--Embarks on the Niger--Conclusion of his journal--Isaaco’s account of his death--Captain Clapperton’s corroboration--Character--Sir Walter Scott 13 PETER SIMON PALLAS. Born 1741.--Died 1811.