CHAPTER IX. 
MR PARK'S SECOND JOURNEY. 
Plan of a new Expedition to the Niger. — Undertaken by Mr 
Park. — His arrival at Goree. — Departure. — Beginning of 
the rainy season. — Alarming sickness. — Washing for gold. 
— Depredations of the Natives. — Arrival on the Niger. — 
Interview with Mansong s Prime Minister. — Residence at 
Sansanding- — Builds a boat, and sets sail. — Reports of his 
death. — Particulars, as narrated by Amadi Fatouma. 
■ Splendid as the first discoveries of Park had 
been, they had tended rather to excite than to 
gratify the ardent curiosity by which his mission 
had been prompted. The Niger had been viewed 
by European eyes, and the direction of its stream 
fully ascertained. But this direction, stretching- 
s/row the ocean, and into the unknown depths of 
interior Africa, only tended to envelope in still 
deeper mystery the progress of that celebrated 
stream. All, besides, which Park observed or 
learned, respecting the nations which extended 
along its banks, was calculated to heighten the in- 
terest with which they had always been viewed. 
These feelings were now become general through 
