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rumours. Accordingly, he engaged Ifaaco, Mr. Park's 

 guide, to condua this bufmefs. In January 1810, 

 Ifaaco left Senegal, and returned on the ift of September, 

 1811, fully confirming the reports of Mr. Park's death. 

 His journal, including another from Amadi Fatouma, the 

 guide who had accompanied Park from Sanfanding down 

 the Niger, was delivered to the governor, and tranfmitted 

 by him, after having been trandated from Arabic to 

 EngliOi, to the fecretary of ftate for the colonial depart- 

 ment. From Amadi Fatouma's journal we learn, that 

 the conductors of the expedition went from Sanfanding to 

 Silla, where Mr. Park had ended his firft voyage ; and 

 that from thence, Mr. Park, Marlyn, three other white 

 men, three Haves, and Amadi, as guide and interpreter, 

 nine in number, proceeded in a canoe to Ginne ; and as 

 they paded Sibby, or Dibbie, they were attacked by an 

 armed force in three canoes, which they repulfed. Again 

 at Rakbara, or Kabra, they repelled another affault, and in 

 pafling Tombucloo, they refilled another llmilar attack, 

 efcaping by force and by the flaughter of many of the natives. 

 As tliey advanced, the number of holtile canoes increafed, 

 till at length it amounted to 60, and in felf-defence they 

 kiUed a very confiderable number of psrfons ; their 

 own number being now reduced by the death of one of 

 the white men to eight. At length having pafled 

 KafFo and Gourmon, and having fupplied themfelvcs with 

 provifions, they entered the country of HaoutTa. The 

 king of the country having received information from the 

 chief of Yaour, a village in this diilrift , that the white men 

 had departed without giving them any prefents, fcnt an 

 -army to a village called Bouffa, near the fide of the river, 

 ■which was polled on the top of a rock that traverfed the 

 river, in which rock there was a large cleft or opening, 

 that admitted the water to pafs in a ftrong current ; and 

 when Mr. Park arrived at this opening and attempted to 

 pafs, he vi'as attacked with lances, pikes, arrows, and ftones ; 

 againft: which he for fome time refolutely defended himfelf, 

 till at length, overpowered by numbers and fatigue, and 

 unable to keep up the canoe againll the current, Mr. Park 

 laid hold of one of the white men and jumped into the 

 v;ater ; Mr. Martyn did the fame, and they were drowned 

 in the ftream in attempting to efcape. One flave was 

 left, and they took him and the canoe, and carried them to the 

 king. Amadi, after having been kept in prifon for three 

 months, was releafed ; and obtained information from the 

 iurviving flave, concerning the manner in which Mr. Park 

 and his companions had died. Notliing was left in the canoe 

 but a fword-beh, of whicli the king had made a girth for 

 his horfe ; and this belt Ifaaco afterwards recovered. 

 Amadi, according to Ifaaco's report, was a good upright 

 ■ .-nan, and delivered the above account to him on oath, nor 

 could he have any interell in deceiving him. From cir- 

 cumftances it is concluded, that Mr. Park died four 

 months after his departure from Sanfanding. 



On Mr. Park's difpofition and charader it is needlefs to 

 enlarge, after the detail of the principal tranfaftions and 

 events of his life given in this article and the article Africa. 

 In private life his conduft was exemplary, as a fon, a 

 huiband, and a father. As to his perfon, he was about fix 

 ieet high, and well proportioned. His whole afpeft was 

 interefting, and his corporeal frame robuft and adtive, and 

 fit for great exertion, and for enduring fevere hardlhips. 

 His family confided of three fons and one daughter, wlio 

 with their mother furvivcd to lament the lofs of him. See 

 the fecond volume of his Travels, a new edition of which 

 was publilhed in 1816, 8vo. For fome other particulars, 

 we refer to the articles Africa, Niger, and Zaike. 

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PARKER, in Geography, a townfliip of Butler county, 

 in Pennfylvania, having 399 inhabitants. 



PARKER'S Town, a town of Kent county, in Vermont, 

 having ico inhabitants. 



PARSONSFIELD, 1. 4, r. 1763. 



PARTHENOS. See Parthenia. 



PARVATI, col. 2, 1. 34, deleihe point after Kailafa. 

 Col. 3, 1. 6, for cap r. cup. Col. 4, 1. 35, for beauty's r. 

 brevity's. Col. 5, 1. 2, for KarVihya r. Kart'ihya ; 1. 3 from 

 bottom, for central is ;•. central eye is. 



PASQUATUNK, in Geography, a county of North 

 Carolina, containing 7674 inhabitants, of whom 2295 were 

 Haves in 1 8 10. 



PASTE-WORK, in Calii-o-Printmg. See Dlfcharge- 



WORK. 



PATMOS, 1. 14, add — Sucli is the account given by 

 Sonnini ; but Dr. Clarke (Travels, vol. vi.) informs us, that 

 he vifited the library, which is a fmall oblong chamber, 

 with a vaulted Hone roof, and found it to be nearly filled 

 with books of all fizes in a moll negledled Hate ; fome 

 lying upon the floor, a prey to tlie damp and worms ; 

 others Handing confufedly on the flielves, Vi'hich.were print- 

 ed volumes, fome of which were well bound, and in good 

 condition ; but neither of the fupcriors of this college was 

 able to read. At the extremity of the chamber he found 

 a heap cf Greek MSS., fome of which were of the highcil 

 antiquity ; air.ongil other fpeciinens of Grecian calli- 

 graphy, the author found a copy of the 24 firll dialogues 

 of Plato, written upon vellum, in the fame exquiilte cha- 

 radler, which remained in the hands of his friend profeffor 

 Porfon until his death. But it is now, with the other MSS. 

 from Patmos, &c. in the Bodleian library at Oxford. 



PATRICK, 1. 2, )•. 4699 inhabitants, of whom 724 are 

 flaves. 



Patrick Town, a town of America, in the diftrift of 

 Maine, and county of Lincoln, having 138 inhabitants. 



PATROCLEIA, or Patroclka, in Geography, one 

 of the Grecian iflands, called by various other names, as 

 Gaitharonefe (Afles' ifle),the ifland of Ebony, Gaidromefa, 

 Gardener's, &c. which difference of names has caufed it to 

 be multiplied and reprefented as a cluRer of iflands rather 

 than as one ifland. It has been faid, that ebony grows upon 

 this ifland ; but Dr. Clarke and his companions could not 

 find a fingle fpecimen of the Ebenus, either cretica orpinnata. 



PATTON, a townfliip of Centre county, in Pennfyl- 

 vania, having 297 perfons. 



PAVAKA, for facrifices r. facrificers. 



PAUCARCOLLA, for Paucarcotta. 



PAULSBURGH, in Geography, a townfliip of Coos, 

 in New Hanipfhire, having 14 inhabitants. 



PAXTON, 1. 2, r. 2232 ; 1. 3, r. 2 1 80— 2998 ; 1. 6, r. 

 619. Add — Alfo, a townfliip of Ohio, in Rofs county, 

 having 661 inhabitants. 



PEACHAM, 1. 3, r. 1301. 



PEARL River, 1. 12. — This is the largefi: river between 

 Mifliffippi and Mobile. Before it enters the Regulets or 

 Rigolets, it divides into feveral channels. 



PEARL-SPAR. See Mmv.a\hOGS, Jddenda. 



PEARL-STONE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



PEASE, in Geography, a townfliip of Belmont county, 

 in Ohio, having 1379 inhabitants. 



PEA-STONE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



PEDAL Harp. The machinery of this in'lrument was 

 invented by M. Simon at Bruflels, about the year 1 760, and 

 was foon adopted in France. In the eighth volume of the 

 folio Encyclopaedia, printed in 1765, it is faid, that " the 

 founds of the pedal harp are more fweet and melodious than 



thofe 



