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of the Europeans in manufactures and the arts of 
civiHzed life, excited the astonishment of Karfa : 
he examined the furniture of the house, the 
masts, sails, rigging, and construction of the trad- 
ing schooner ; and, with an involuntary sigh, ex- 
claimed, " Black men are nothing !" When Mr 
Park resumed his English dress, he surveyed him 
with great pleasure, but was displeased at the loss 
of his beard, which, he said, had converted 
" him from a man into a boy." On the 17th of 
June, Mr Park embarked in an American slave- 
vessel, and proceeded to Goree, where they were 
detained till the beginning of October. The sur- 
geon having died of a fever, Mr Park acted in 
his medical capacity during the remainder of the 
voyage. Many of the slaves had heard of Mr 
Park in the interior countries, and some of them 
had seen him. After a voyage of thirty-five days ; 
they reached Antigua, where Mr Park embarked 
in the Chesterfield packet, and on December the 
£2d arrived at Falmouth. 
Thus terminated the journey of Mr Park, un- 
questionably the most important ever performed 
by an European in Nigritia. Though unable to 
reach Tombuctoo or Houssa, he established a 
number of geographical positions, in a direct hne 
of 1100 miles, reckoning from Cape Verd; he fixed 
the common boundaries of the Moors and negroes 
in the interior, and pointed out the sources of the 
