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the Lieutenant, is nothing to what we get at this place ; 
" as I feel by my head this morning, having been drinking 
"all night with a Moor, and ended by giving him an 
" excellent threshing." The letter appears to be written 
throughout in high spirits ; and concludes with the in- 
formation, that Captain Park had no doubt that the river, 
on which they were about to embark, was the Congo. 
A particular allusion was made in the Memoir of Mr. 
Park's Life, to the information which he has given, relative 
to the prices of European and African articles, at Saur 
sanding, as constituting one of the most valuable parts of 
the Journal. The subject unquestionably is interesting: 
and the writer has had an opportunity of considering it 
with more attention since the former edition of the present 
work was published. He has been much assisted in this 
enquiry, by the suggestions and information of several very 
intelligent friends, and submits the following remarks to 
the judgment of the reader ; although he is well aware, that 
owing to an unavoidable uncertainty relative to some of 
the facts, the discussion is attended with considerable 
difficulty, and will not admit of very accurate results. 
bling small beer when a few days old ; but has this inconvenience, that, owing to 
its so readily fermenting, it cannot be preserved in bottles. Bosman says, at 
Whidah, they brew a kind of beer so strong that it does not yield to the strong 
beers of Holland. — The Balloms make a kind of wine from a species of phimb ; 
which they infuse in water and set to ferment, when it becomes intoxicating. 
The natives of Bambouc make an inebriating liquor from honey," &c. — Winter- 
bottoms Account of the Native Africans, p. 72. 
