REACHES THE NIGER. 
Karfa, having heard that a coffle was travelling 
through the country, conducted by a person of 
the name of Park, came from Boori, a distance of 
six days' journey, to meet his old friend. 
After leaving Dombila, Mr Park came to a 
district abounding in corn, which proved very 
embarrassing, from the difficulty of preventing 
the asses from eating any portion of it. Accord* 
ing to the law of Africa, if an ass devours a single 
blade, he may be seized ; and, although he cannot 
be employed, may be killed and eaten ; an use of 
his person, which, however little tempting to an 
European palate, appears delicious in the eye of 
an African. 
On the 19th, at three o'clock, Mr Park reached 
the summit of the ridge which separates the Niger 
from the remote branches of the Senegal ; and, 
coming to the brow of the hill, he once more saw 
the Niger rolling its immense stream along the 
plain. 
It was impossible for Park not to be deeply 
struck with the contrast of his present situation, 
with the situation and the hopes with which he 
had departed from the Gambia. Of thirty-eight 
men who had accompanied him, seven only re^ 
mained, all sick, and several in such an extremity 
as scarcely to afford hopes of recovery. He ad- 
mits, that ^* the prospect appeared somewhat 
gloomy." Yet his hopes and enthusiasm were 
