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to see me, like a captain of banditti, in a cavern lighted by a 
candle stuck on a bayonet, and surrounded by muskets, and 
dirty soldiers and sailors, writing this scrawl on my hat placed 
on my knee. The climate is, however, so good, and the nights 
so pleasant, that we feel no inconvenience from our bivouac in 
the open air." 
Major Peddie, it is understood, arrived at Senegal, in the 
spring of 18 16 ; but finding that he could not reach the Niger 
before the commencement of the rainy season, very prudently 
determined to remain till it was over. He had an attack of 
the fever, from which he recovered. In October he set out ? 
but we regret to state, that before reaching the Niger, he was 
taken ill and died. The direction of the expedition then de- 
Yolved upon Lieutenant Campbell, the second in command, 
who, by the last accounts, had arrived at the head of the Rio 
Nunez, and was about to set out for Bammakoo, the point 
*vhere Park embarked on the Niger. 
END OF VOLUME FIRST. 
Printed by George Ramsay & Co 
Edinburgh, IB 17. 
