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his situation, he might contribute to soften or remove those prejudices. He 
was, at the same time, aware that he incurred some risque of displeasing those 
whom he most wished to gratify, the immediate friends and connections of 
Mr. Park; and that the introduction of such topics might possibly be con- 
sidered by a few others as an error of judgment, or of taste. For such criti- 
cisms he was prepared; but he did not in the least anticipate that a plain 
statement and temperate discussion of well known circumstances connected 
with the publication of these Travels, would expose him to the charge of a 
deliberate design to depreciate Mr. Park's merits and injure his reputation. 
Such charges having been made, he has been induced to avail himself of the 
present opportunity to explain and enforce by a few additional remarks, what 
had been left somewhat imperfect in that part of the Biographical Memoir 
which relates to the present question. To pursue the subject farther, or to 
defend himself seriously against the imputation of designs injurious to the 
character of Mr. Park, will not, he is sure, be expected from hiin by any 
candid or intelligent reader. 
Additio7i to the Note (Appendix No. IV.) containing the Discussion relative 
to the Termination of the Niger. 
Among the arguments in favour of Mr. Park's supposition that the Niger 
terminates in the Congo, the editor omitted to observe, that the hypothesis in 
question derives some additional probability from the statement of the guide 
whom Park took down the Niger from Sansanding. In Park's letter to Sir 
Joseph Banks (p. Ixxviii), he speaks of this person as " one of the greatest tra- 
vellers in that part of Africa," and represents him as stating, "that the Niger 
after it passes Kashna, runs directlt/ to the right hand, or the south; and that 
he never heard of any person who had seen its termination ; and that 
he is certain it does not end any where in the vicinity of Kashna or Bornou, 
having resided some time in both those kingdoms." 
In the Advertisement to the Second Edition the editor has observed, with 
reference to the same question, that since this work appeared, some new light 
has been thrown upon the subject of the Niger, by the Article on this publi- 
cation in the Quarterly Review (vol. xiii. p. 140) ; which contains important 
information respecting the Congo, and several valuable remarks on the 
identity of that river with the Niger. If in one iastance, to which he v/i!! 
