MR PARK'S SECOND JOURNEY. 467 
" said to them, — ' Stop throwing now, you see no- 
* thing in the canoe, and nobody but myself, 
" therefore cease. Take me and the canoe, but 
" don't kill me.' They took possession of the ca~ 
" noe and the man, and carried them to the king." 
Such is the only narrative which has ever reach- 
ed us respecting the fate of the expedition from 
the time of its leaving Sansanding. Considerable 
doubts, and on very plausible grounds, have been 
started against its authenticity. Such a discus- 
sion, however, could possess extremely little inte- 
rest, now that the long period of time which has 
elapsed must have extinguished almost every hope 
of the return of this illustrious and lamented tra« 
veller. 
