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It will appear, upon a due copsideration of these cir- 
cumstances, that reasonable and sufficient inducements 
still exist for attempting farther discoveries in Africa ; and 
that nothing really unfavourable to such undertakings can 
with propriety be inferred from Park's late failure ; but 
on the contrary, that the events of that mission furnish ad- 
ditional grounds of encouragement and new prospects of 
success. The proper mode also of conducting such disco- 
veries in future, may now be considered as ascertained. 
Before Park's late Journey, the important question whe- 
ther an expedition of this kind should be accompanied by 
a military escort, was involved in some difficulty. Appre- 
hensions might then be entertained lest the appearance of 
an armed force passing through the country might alarm 
the jealousy of the natives, and produce hostile combina- 
tions, by which any small body of European troops would 
sooner or later be overpowered. It might also have been 
doubted, and with great appearance of reason, whether it 
would be practicable on such a march to obtain proper 
supplies of provisions. The history of Park's expedition 
appears to furnish a clear and satisfactory solution of both 
these difficulties ; and experience having sliewn that large 
tracts of the African continent may be traversed in safety 
of the chief's being informed that Park would not return ; and that the king's 
resentment, occasioned by his receiving no presents, was the cause of Park's 
death. — It may be proper on this occasion to apprize the reader that the notes 
to Isaaco's Journal (except in one instance, p. 181) are all of them printed from 
the manuscript of the translation, and appear to be parts of the original docu- 
ment transmitted from Africa. They seem to have been inserted by the 
translator ; and in several cases, apparently, were added from information which 
he received from Isaaco. 
