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MR PARK'S SECOND JOURNEY. 
Nimma, rose in the Kong mountains, and after 
passing one clay's journey to the south of Sego, 
and receiving a branch from Miniana, emptied it- 
self into the Dibbie. He was told that Jinnie 
lay, not upon the Niger, but at the confluence of 
the Nimma and Miniana. This is probably a mis- 
take, though I have little doubt, from concurring 
testimonies, of that city lying at the confluence of 
two rivers. It was also said, that nothing was to 
be dreaded from the Moors, unless at Tombuctoo ; 
the northern bank of the river at all other points 
being inhabited by native tribes, called the Soorka, 
Mahinga, and Tuarick. Accounts were also re- 
ceived of a great water called the Ba Sea Feena, 
situated at a month's journey beyond Baedoo, and 
described as incomparably larger than the Dibbie. 
On the 28th October, Park met with a severer 
blow than any he had yet experienced. His near 
relation and intimate friend, Mr Anderson, died* 
after an illness of four months. He modestly de- 
clines, from personal motives, any studied panegy- 
ric ; but mentions him in a manner, which shews 
the highest estimate of his merit. " I shall only ob- 
" serve,' ' says he, " that no event which took place 
" during the journey, ever threw the smallest 
" gloom over my mind, till I laid Mr Anderson in 
" the grave. I then felt myself as if left a second 
'? time lonely and friendless amid the wiids of Afri- 
u ca." The whole party was now reduced to 
