418 APPENDIX. No. II. 
APPENDIX. No. II. 
Translations of a Manuscript descriptive of Mr. Park's Death. 
Mr. Salame's Translation. 
[The words in italics, so distinguished at that Gentleman's 
request, not being in the original.] 
A literal translation of a Declaration, written 
in a corrupted Arabic, from the town of 
Yaiid in the interior of Africa. 
In the name of God the Merciful and the 
Munificent. 
This Declaration is issued from the town 
called (1) Yaiid in the Country of Kossa (2). — 
We (the writer,) do witness the Jbllozoing 
case; (statement.) We never saw, nor heard 
of the sea (River) called (4) Koodd ; but we 
sat to hear (understood) the voice (report) 
of some persons saying, " We saw a ship, 
equal to her we never saw before ; and the 
King of Yaud had sent plenty of every kind 
(1) Sir William Ouseley (who very obligingly 
communicated a hurried translation from Crick- 
howel, although the original had been but two 
hours in his possession) read this Yaur or 
Yaour. 
(3) Sir Wm. writes Husa or Haousa : the 
latter is occasionally the Moorish pronunciation, 
but Houssa is invariably the negro. I certainly 
never once heard that Houssa included Yawoo- 
rie, which has a distinct Sovereign, who is men- 
tioned in the MS. : Perhaps it may be accounted 
for, from Yawoorie being one of the seven 
kingdoms tributary to Houssa or Mallowa. 
(3) Mr. Jackson has preserved this apparent 
contradiction in his fidelity to the original, ac- 
cording to his reading. He considers^ it may 
be reconciled by presuming that the writer only 
saw th? vessel pass Yawoorie, and did not wit- 
Mr. Jackson's Translation. 
[Of tills Gentleman's considerate politeness in anticipating my 
wishes by a spontaneous offer to translate this MS., I shall 
have occasion to repeat my acknowledgments in the Geq- 
graphical Appendix.] 
In the name of God the Merciful and 
Clement. 
This Narrative proceeds from the territory 
in Housa (2) called ( 1 ) Eeauree. We observed 
an extraordinary event or circumstance (3,) hut 
we neither saw nor heard of the River which is 
called (4) Kude, and as we were sitting, we 
heard the voice of children and we saw a vessel 
the like to which in size we never saw before; 
and, we saw the King of Eeauree send cattle 
and sheep, and a variety of vegetables in great 
abundance : and there were two men and one 
ness the ultimate catastrophe at Boussa, where 
he imagines the river may first receive the 
name of Kude, as African rivers frequently 
have a different name in every country through 
which they flow. This interpretation does not 
make the writer a mere reporter as in the other 
translation, but a witness of all that happened 
at Yawofirie, although not afterwards. I never 
understood the river to have any other name than 
Quorra or Quolla, from Shego to Foor, yet of 
this we ought not to feel positive. 
(4) It is very extraordinary that the name of 
the Quolla should always be written Kude, 
Koad, or Koada, and that Mr. Hutchison, who 
was learning Arabic of the Moors, in Ashantee, 
should be taught to write and pronounce as 
Quolla, the same Arabic word which every Eu- 
ropean proficient reads as above. I cannot help 
