ADVERTISEMENT. 
Xh e original documents relating to Mr. Mungo Park's 
last mission into Africa having been entrusted to the 
Directors of the African Institution by the Secretary of 
State for the Colonial Department, with liberty to publish 
them, in case they should deem it expedient ; the Direc- 
tors now avail themselves of this permission, by pubHsliing 
the papers for the benefit of Mr. Park's family. 
These documents, together with other papers furnished 
by Mr. Park's connections and friends, which also form a 
part of the present publication, consist of the following 
particulars : 
1. The original Journal of the expedition, officially 
transmitted by Mr. Park to the Secretary of State ; con- 
taining several of Mr. Park's drawings and sketches, il- 
lustrative of particular descriptions, which are copied in 
this publication. 
2. The Journal, as translated from the Arabic language, 
in which it was originally composed, of Isaaco, a native 
African, commissioned in the year 1810, by the Governor 
of Senegal, to go in search of Mr. Park and ascertain his 
fate ; which Journal was likewise officially transmitted to 
the Secretary of State. 
3. A Memoir delivered by Mr. l^rk at the Colonial 
Office in the year 1804, relative to the plan and objects of 
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