ADVERTISEMENT. 
and detailed narrative, which it was the author's intention 
to prepare for the press after his return to England. 
A work, thus imperfect, and which the unfortunate fate 
of its author has prevented from being brought to a com- 
pletion, is entitled to peculiar indulgence ; and if those 
allowances are made, which candour and justice require, 
the editor confidently hopes, that Mr. Park's Journal will 
not disappoint the public expectation. It will be found to 
contain several interesting particulars concerning Africa, 
not hitherto known, and to illustrate and confirm, in various 
material respects, some of the most important discoveries 
communicated in Mr. Park's former Travels. It bears strong 
internal marks of truth and fidelity ; and, perhaps, the very 
nakedness and simplicity of its descriptions and its minute 
details of petty circumstances, may be thought by some 
readers to convey a more accurate and distinct conception 
of the process of an African journey, and of the difficulties 
with which such expeditions are attended, than a more 
elaborate and polished narrative. 
With a view of rendering the present publication more 
complete, and of gratifying in a certain degree that rea- 
sonable curiosity, which will naturally be felt by many 
readers of this Journal and the former Travels, it has been 
thought advisable to add a biographical Memoir of the 
Author. But as the events of Mr. Park's life, with the 
exception of those contained in the works just alluded to, 
are few and unimportant, the editor has been induced, in 
the course of this undertaking, to deviate occasionally into 
other topics, more or less connected with the principal sub- 
ject; in the discussion of which he has inadvertently 
