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mised by Mr Park, who likewise sent a handsome 
present to the schoolmaster at Malacotta. But the 
superiority of the Europeans in manufactures and 
the arts of civilized life, excited the astonishment 
of Karfa ; he examined the furniture of the house, 
the masts, sails, rigging, and construction of the 
trading schooner ; and, with an involuntary sigh, 
exclaimed, " Black men are nothing." When 
Mr Park resumed his English dress, he surveyed 
him with great pleasure, but was displeased at the 
loss of his beard, which, he said, " had converted 
" him from a man into a boy." On the 17th of 
June, Mr Park embarked in an American slave- 
vessel, and proceeded to Goree, where they were 
detained till the beginning of October. The sur- 
geon having died of a fever, Mr Park acted in his 
medical capacity during the remainder of the voy- 
age. Many of the slaves had heard of Mr Park 
in the interior countries, and some of them had 
seen him. After a voyage of thirty-five days, they 
reached Antigua, where Mr Park embarked in the 
Chesterfield packet, and on December the £2d ar- 
rived at Falmouth. 
Thus terminated the journey of Mr Park, un- 
questionably the most important ever performed by 
an European in Nigritia. Though unable to reach 
Tombuctoo or Houssa, he established a number of 
geographical positions, in a direct line of 1100 
miles, reckoning from Cape Verd > he fixed the 
