APPENDIX TO BOOK I. 
NOTICES OF THE EXPEDITIONS WHICH HAVE SAILED TO 
THE RIVERS CONGO AND NIGER* 
The expeditions for discovery in the interior of Africa are 
announced, as follows, in the second edition of the Narrative 
of Mr Park's Last Journey : 
" Two expeditions for exploring the interior of Africa are 
now in preparation, and will shortly take place, under the di- 
rections of government. The former of these is intended to 
pursue the course of the Niger, and ascertain the progress and 
termination of that river 5 as far as can be effected by follow- 
ing the plans of Mr Park ; the latter is to proceed immediate* 
ly to the mouth of the Congo, and explore the course of that 
river according to the suggestion of Mr Maxwell, author of the 
chart of the Congo, and the very intelligent friend of Mr Park, 
The duty of directing and superintending the preparations for 
the former of these important missions has been committed, 
by government, to Major-General Sir James Willoughby Gor- 
don, JJuarter-Master-General of the British forces; the ar- 
rangements of the latter have been entrusted to John Barro%» % 
Esq. Secretary to the Admiralty. The nomination of these 
gentlemen to the services in question, cannot fail to prove high- 
ly satisfactory to the public, as it affords the best assurance of 
