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which he conversed with Park, who constantly attended 
him, with the utmost composure and resignation ; and 
expired without a struggle on the 28th. He was buried 
about one hundred yards north of the eastermost mosque in 
San sanding ; Koonta Mamadee, the dooty or chief man of 
the town, attending his body to the grave. 
Of Lieutenant Martyn, the last survivor of Park's unfor- 
tunate associates, very little is known ; but sufficient 
appears to render it probable, that he was of little real use 
in promoting the objects of the expedition. The editor 
has seen some extracts of a letter, written by him from 
Sansanding to a friend at Goree ; in which he mentions, 
tliat almost all the soldiers were dead, but that Captain 
Park had not a single day's illness during the march ; and 
that after their arrival at the Niger, they had got a canoe, 
since rigged into a schooner, in which they meant to pro- 
ceed down the river immediately. The passage which 
follows, may be worth inserting, as it is doubtless highly 
characteristic of the manners and habits of the writer; and 
as the careless levity, which it displays, presents a striking, 
though ludicrous, contrast with the calm fortitude appear- 
ing in the letters of Park written about the same period. It 
contains also some unexpected information respecting the 
quality of the African heer ; an article of such importance, 
that, according to Park's Journal, there is a distinct market 
for the sale of it at S^nsanding.* Whitbread's beer," says 
* The use of fermented liquors is very general in Africa, Upon most parts 
of the gold coast, a kind of beer, called PittO, is obtained from the Indian corn 
or maize, previa jsly made into malt. The process is exactly the same as in 
Europe; only no hops are added to it. It is a pleasant drink, somewhat rescm- 
