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Article PARK'S TRAVELS IN AFRICA. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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Park's Travels In Africa.
of the African Negro with the savage treachery of the A"rab , and all of them taught to regard the Christian name with inconceivable abhorrence , and to consider it nearly as lawful to murder a European as it would be to kill a dog . . By these Moors Mr . P . was kept in merciless and insulting durance upwards of two months , at Benown , situated in iidegrees N . L . and 7 W . L .
, Finding that it was in contemplation to deprive him of life , or put out his eyes , he determined , rather than remain longer among such monsters , whose tenderest mercies were cruelty , to risk perishing' in the woods by hunger , or the fury of wild beasts . He fortunately procured at his departure his horse and his pocket compass ; wliich
last he had , during his confinement , concealed in tae sand , he rode forward without stopping the whole of the first day . His horse grew tired , he experienced the torments of thirst . Whenever he came to a tree , he climbed it , in hopes of discovering a watering place ; he chewed the leaves , but found them ail bitter . Towards the evening of the second day , he must inevitably have perished , had he not lihted n a few scattered huts of Toulah shepherds Perceiving
g up . an aged Negro ' woman among them who gazed on him , he tendered her his handkerchief , and requested in exchange a li'tle corn . She kindly invited him into her hut , and produced a large wooden b . iwl of kouscous , or boiled corn ; procuring him at the same time corn ' and water for his horse . In this mannerobtaining eleemosynary support from the most
, wretched of human bings , he wand . ered for the space pf 15 days , directing his course near east-south-east , in the accomplishment of his mission . At length , on the morning of the 16 th day , having been joined by some Mantingo Negroes , who were travelling to Sego , lie had the inexpressible satisfaction to behold , the great object of his wishes—the long-sought majestic Ni littering to the morning
ger , g sun , as broad as die Thames at Westminster , flowing with slow majesty from west to east , through the middle of a very extensive town , which his fellow-travellers told him was Sego , the capital of the great kingdom of Bambara .
rlis emotions were exquisite : and it were unjust not to give them in his own words— ' I hastened to the brink of the river , and having drank of the water , lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all things , for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success . ' - Among the animals Mr . Park met with in Africa , were the hyeena , 'he panther , and the elephant , which the natives destroy by firearms , particularly the last , for the sake of his teeth . When Mr . Park told
them that , in the East Indies , elephants were made perfectl y 'arne , and sold for an immense quantky of gold dust , they laughed him to scorn , shouting—Tobanbo foiinio ! ' The white man ' s lie !' AtJarra , Mr . Park arrived Feb . 18 , 179 6 , near Simbing , where Major Houghton wrote his last dispatch with a pencil ; here he discovered that the Major had been either murdered or starved to death w the great d . esart at Jarra , near the salt-pits of Thheet . - It was at the camp of the King of Bambara , at Benown , that the ceremony of the nuptial benediction was performed on the English
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Park's Travels In Africa.
of the African Negro with the savage treachery of the A"rab , and all of them taught to regard the Christian name with inconceivable abhorrence , and to consider it nearly as lawful to murder a European as it would be to kill a dog . . By these Moors Mr . P . was kept in merciless and insulting durance upwards of two months , at Benown , situated in iidegrees N . L . and 7 W . L .
, Finding that it was in contemplation to deprive him of life , or put out his eyes , he determined , rather than remain longer among such monsters , whose tenderest mercies were cruelty , to risk perishing' in the woods by hunger , or the fury of wild beasts . He fortunately procured at his departure his horse and his pocket compass ; wliich
last he had , during his confinement , concealed in tae sand , he rode forward without stopping the whole of the first day . His horse grew tired , he experienced the torments of thirst . Whenever he came to a tree , he climbed it , in hopes of discovering a watering place ; he chewed the leaves , but found them ail bitter . Towards the evening of the second day , he must inevitably have perished , had he not lihted n a few scattered huts of Toulah shepherds Perceiving
g up . an aged Negro ' woman among them who gazed on him , he tendered her his handkerchief , and requested in exchange a li'tle corn . She kindly invited him into her hut , and produced a large wooden b . iwl of kouscous , or boiled corn ; procuring him at the same time corn ' and water for his horse . In this mannerobtaining eleemosynary support from the most
, wretched of human bings , he wand . ered for the space pf 15 days , directing his course near east-south-east , in the accomplishment of his mission . At length , on the morning of the 16 th day , having been joined by some Mantingo Negroes , who were travelling to Sego , lie had the inexpressible satisfaction to behold , the great object of his wishes—the long-sought majestic Ni littering to the morning
ger , g sun , as broad as die Thames at Westminster , flowing with slow majesty from west to east , through the middle of a very extensive town , which his fellow-travellers told him was Sego , the capital of the great kingdom of Bambara .
rlis emotions were exquisite : and it were unjust not to give them in his own words— ' I hastened to the brink of the river , and having drank of the water , lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all things , for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success . ' - Among the animals Mr . Park met with in Africa , were the hyeena , 'he panther , and the elephant , which the natives destroy by firearms , particularly the last , for the sake of his teeth . When Mr . Park told
them that , in the East Indies , elephants were made perfectl y 'arne , and sold for an immense quantky of gold dust , they laughed him to scorn , shouting—Tobanbo foiinio ! ' The white man ' s lie !' AtJarra , Mr . Park arrived Feb . 18 , 179 6 , near Simbing , where Major Houghton wrote his last dispatch with a pencil ; here he discovered that the Major had been either murdered or starved to death w the great d . esart at Jarra , near the salt-pits of Thheet . - It was at the camp of the King of Bambara , at Benown , that the ceremony of the nuptial benediction was performed on the English