The life and travels of Mungo Park : with the account of his death from the Journal of Isaaco, the substance of the later discoveries relative to his lamented fate, and the termination of the Niger

Mungo Park

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• África
• Park
• Niger River

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? 4MTf,YTHE
TRAVELSLIFE AND
MUNGO PARK;
WITH THE
OFACCOUNT OF HIS DEATH FROM THE JOURNAL ISAACO,
THE SUBSTANCE OF LATER DISCOVERIES REL-
ATIVE TO HIS LAMENTED FATE,
AND
OF THE NIGER.THE TERMINATION
Y O R K :N E W-
AND CLIFF-STREET.HARPER BROTHERS,
1840.to Act of inEntered, theaccording Congress, year 1810, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.ADVERTISEMENT.
FEW have excited a more interestsubjects lively
the curious and the than thelearned,among geo-
with to the terminationgraphical problem regard
of the This was at atNiger. question length put
rest the successful of the Landers,*by expedition
but not until aftermore than half a of fruit-century
less effort and which val-speculation, during many
uable lives had been sacrificed in to
attempting
to its outlet the course of thistrace riv-mysterious
er. those who had devotedAmong generously
themselves to this none wasperilous enterprise,
more than Park whose un-;distinguished Mungo
after over the mostfate, having triumphedtimely
excited the commis-difficulties,appalling deepest
Besides a minute anderation and regret. copious
narration of the two of this celebratedexpeditions
the volume here offered to the con-traveller, public
andtains a succinct account of the la-interesting
of adventurers in the samebours subsequent field,
down the of African tobringing subject discovery
H. & B.the most recent period.
New- 1840.York, May,
* to theSee Landers' Nos. xxxv. and xvxvi.Expedition Niger,
<of Family Library.Harpers'
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