MUNGO PARK'S 
horse, and many of the people were very much stung about 
the face and hands. 
During the night got the telescope ready in order to 
set the watch to Greenwich time by observing an emer- 
sion of the second satellite of Jupiter. Mr. Anderson took 
the time, and I was seated at the telescope half an hour 
before it happened, in order to be sure of observing it. 
The satellite emerged by 
Watch - - - 
• 
11 
49 
16 
Greenwich 
11 
46 
30 
Watch too fast 
0 
2 
46 
Emersion by Nautical Almanack 
11 
49 
51 
Equation - - - 
0 
3 
21 
Mean time at Greenwich 
11 
46 
30 
Observations of the sun taken with artificial horizon and 
the watch the same evening, to determine the apparent 
time. 
H. M. S. . , 
H. M. S. 
5 57 15 
0 58 0 
0 58 42 
30 24 
30 14 
29 43 
6 4 15 
0 5 0 
0 5 35 
27 11 
26 51 
26 36 
H. M. S. 
6 6 54 
0 7 34 
0 8 13 
25 56 
25 38 
25 20 
Observed the meridian altitude of the sun within a mile 
of Bee Creek the same day ; , 
