LIFE OF MUNGO PARK. 
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be in England in the month of May or June by way of the 
West Indies. 
" I request that your Lordship will have the goodness 
to permit my friend Sir Joseph Banks to peruse the 
abridged account of my proceedings, and that it may be 
preserved, in case I should lose my papers. 
I have the honour to be, &c." 
To Mrs. Park. 
Sansanding, Idth November, 1805. 
" It grieves me to the heart to write any thing that may 
give you uneasiness ; but such is the will of him wh * doeth 
all thinos well / Your brother Alexander, my dea ■ ?end, 
is no more ! He died of the fever at Sansanding, on the 
morning of the 28th of October ; for particulars I must 
refer you to your father. 
" I am afraid that, impressed with a woman's fears and 
the anxieties of a wife, you may be led to consider my 
situation as a great deal worse than it really is. It is true, 
my dear friends, Mr. Anderson and George 8< ftt, have 
bolh bid adieu to the things of this world ; and t it e greater 
part of the soldiers have died on the march during the 
rainy season ; but you may believe me, I am in good 
health. The rains are completely over, and the healthy 
season has commenced, so that there is no danger of sick- 
ness ; and I have still a sufficient force to protect me from 
any insult in sailing down the river, to the sea. 
" We have already embarked all our things, and shall 
sail the moment I have finished this letter. I do not intend 
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