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ed the Ba Sea Feena, situated at a month's jour- 
ney beyond Baedoo, and described as incompara- 
bly larger than the Dibbie. 
On the 28th October Park met with a severer 
blow than any he had yet experienced. His near 
relation and intimate friend, Mr Anderson, died, 
after an illness of four months. He modestly de- 
clines, from personal motives, any studied panegy- 
ric ; but mentions him in a manner which shews 
the highest estimate of his merit. " I shall only 
** observe,'* says he, " that no event which took 
" place during the journey, ever threw the small- 
est gloom over my mind, till I laid Mr Ander- 
son in the grave. I then felt myself as if left a 
second time lonely and friendless amid the wilds 
of Africa." The whole party was now reduced 
to five Europeans ; himself. Lieutenant Martyn, 
and three soldiers, one of whom was in a state of 
derangement. Although, however, his anticipa- 
tions assumed now somewhat of a darker tint, yet 
his enthusiastic determination, and entire self-de- 
votion to the cause, suffered no change. To Lord 
Camden he writes, " I shall set sail to the east, 
** with the fixed resolution to discover the termi- 
" nation of the Niger, or perish in the attempt 
and adds, " Though all the Europeans who are 
" with me should die, and though I were myself 
" half dead, I would still persevere ; and, if I 
" could not succeed in the object of my journey, 
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