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the wind, than in the direction of the wind. “4: That causes 
foreign to the wind, and depending on modifications of the atmo- 
sphere, have a very great influence on the facility with which - 
sound is propagated to a distance. 
Muneo Park. 
Every circumstance that can elucidate the fate of the ex- 
plorer of Africa is interesting, although, from the length of 
time that has elapsed since he was la:t heard of, the probability 
of his being in existence is so chimerical as scarcely to afford 
the most distant ray of its being realised. The following is, 
however, a singular coincidence, and there can be no doubt but 
the white men therein mentioned might be Mr. Park, and pro- 
bably his fellow traveller Lieutenant Martyn; particularly as it 
is known they embarked on the Niger with only three of their 
companions, and also that no persons, as is there described, 
could possibly be in the interior of that country, and similarly 
situated, but them. The manner in which this information has 
been obtained is rather singular, but thereseemsnoreason todoubt 
of its correctness. It appears that some time since a gentleman 
accidentally observed in London a seaman whom he had seen at 
Cadiz, where he was well known from his having been in Africa, 
and at Tombuctoo, a city which no white person before hzs 
been able to reach, although it is the great object of European 
research. This seaman, whose name is Robert Adams, belonged 
to the American ship Charles (and is a native of America, born 
on Hudson’s river), and was wrecked October 11, 1810, near a 
small place called El Gazie, on the African coast, to the north- 
ward of Cape Blanco; and, with the rest of the crew, made 
prisoner by the Moors. After some time the whole were con- 
yeyed by the barbarians across the Great Desert to Sondenny, 
and thence to Tombuctoo, experiencing the greatest fatigue and 
hardships. After a slavery at various places for four years, and 
undergoing every cruel treatment, he was so fortunate as to 
have his ransom effected by Mr. Dupuis, the Consul at Moga- 
dore, from whence he went to Fez, obtained a passage to Ca- 
diz, where he remained until peace with the United States was 
concluded, and ultimately arrived in London. He states, that 
among the negro-slaves at Wed-noon—(where, from his being a 
white man, he attracted great notice)—was a woman who said 
she came from a place called Kanno, a long way across the De- 
sert, and that she had seen in her own country white men as 
white as “ bather’’ (meaning the white wall), and in a large 
boat with two high sticks in it, with cloth upon them ; and that 
they rowed this boat in a manner different from the custom of 
the 
