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as volunteers in order to assist in rigging and navigating 
our Nigritian Men of War. I have given them the same 
encouragement as the soldiers, and have had the four car- 
penters whom I brought from England attested, in order 
to put the whole under the same discipline and regulations. 
" On the morning of the 6th of April we embarked the 
soldiers, in number thirty-five men. They jumped into the 
boats in the highest spirits, and bade adieu to Goree with 
repeated huzzas. I believe that every man in the Garrison 
would have embarked with great cheerfulness ; but no in- 
ducement could prevail on a single Negro to accompany 
me. I must therefore trust to the Gambia for interpreters, 
and I expect to be able to hire or purchase three or four 
in going up the river. I will send a particular account of 
all money matters by the return of the Transport." 
MUNGO PARK. 
To Sir Joseph Banks. 
Kayee, River Gambia, 
" My Dear Friend, ^p^^i 26^a, isos. 
^' I know that you will be pleased to hear that I am in 
good health, and going forwards with as much success as 
I could reasonably expect. In my letter to Lord Camden, 
I have given a short statement of my transactions since I 
left England, which I have requested his Lordship to shew 
to you. By that you will see that I have had but little 
time to attend to objects of natural history ; but lest you 
should think that I have neglected this pursuit entirely. 
