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but the catastrophe was so sudden, and the violence of the 

 stream so great, that they could not reach them. The break 

 of the river on the rocks is described as dreadful. The whirl- 

 winds formed were appalling, and the agitation of the waters 

 was so great as almost to raise the canoe on its end, and pre- 

 cipitate it, stem forwards, into the gulfs below it. At the mo- 

 ment the vessel struck, Mr. Park held something in his hand, 

 which he threw into the water, just as the vessel appeared to 

 be going to pieces. The « water was too bad "—so agitated 

 that he could not swim, — and he was seen to sink in it. There 

 were "plenty" of other white men in the canoe, all of whom 

 were drowned. The river there is as broad as from Le Fevre 

 Point to Tagrin Point, Sierra Leone, or above four miles. 

 Ihere was a black man, a slave, who was saved from the 

 canoe. This black man spoke the Foulah language, and was 

 a slave to a Foulah-man. When Duncanno left Yaourie, this 

 man was still in Boussa, but he knows nothing more of him. 



Duncanno asserted positively that no person from Park's 

 vessel landed at Birnie Yaourie, that the Black was the only 

 individual saved, and that that man only was left at Boussa. 

 The people of Boussa went in canoes to this " bad place " in 

 the river, where Park's vessel was broken, and where he was 

 drowned, and some expert divers dived into the stream and 

 picked up twelve pistols and two long musquets. " Plenty of 

 people " went from Birnie Yaourie to Boussa to see the wreck 

 after the king of Boussa had sent to the king of Yaourie to 

 inform him of the disaster. Park informed the black man 

 who was in the boat that in a week or two he should carry 

 him with the canoe into a " great ocean," where the water- 

 was salt ! 



Thus far the simple narrative. It bears the stamp of truth 

 upon it, and it is impossible to reflect upon the catastrophe 

 without feelings of the deepest sorrow and regret at the loss 

 of the enterprising traveller when he was so near completing 

 his labour, and reaping the reward of all his toils. Various 

 accounts, obtained through our present channel of informa- 

 tion, agree m stating, that from below Boussa to Benin the 

 river is open and deep, and broad and navigable.— Glasgow 

 Courier. b 



NEW SOUTH WALES. 

 [At page 459 of our last volume, we gave, from The Morning Chronicle, an 

 interesting article on tins rising country ; the further progress of disco- 

 very and of manufactures ill which we now give some particulars of from 

 the same source. The writer appears to be a resident in the country.] 



A gentleman, who was in the interior with Mr. Oxley, told 

 me that he once met with a party of interior natives, all of 



whom, 



