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European merchandise, for sale wholesale and retail ; 
and probably the large profits he made excited the envy 
of the merchants. The natives of Djenneh, the Moors, 
and merchants of Sansanding, j oined with those of Sego 
in offering, in the presence of Modibinne, to give the 
King of Mansong a larger and more valuable quantity 
of merchandise than he had received from the English 
traveller, if he would seize his baggage, and then kill 
him, or send him out of Bambarra. But in spite of his 
knowledge of this fact, Mungo Park still kept his shop 
open, and he received, as the proceeds of one single 
day’s business, 25,756 pieces of money, or cowries.” 
Upon the 28th of October Anderson expired, after 
four months’ illness, and Mungo Park found himself 
once more alone in the heart of Africa. The King of 
Mansong had accorded him permission to build a boat, 
which would enable him to explore the Niger. Naming 
his craft the Djoliba , he fixed upon the 16th of Novem¬ 
ber for his departure. 
Here his journal ends, with details on the riverside 
populations, and on the geography of the countries he 
was the first to discover. This journal, when it reached 
Europe, was published, imperfect as it was, as soon as 
the sad fact was realised that the writer had perished in 
the waters of the Djoliba. It contained in reality no 
new discovery, but it was recognised as useful to geo¬ 
graphical science. Mungo Park had determined the 
astronomical position of the more important towns, and 
thereby furnished material for a map of Senegambia. 
The perfecting of this map was entrusted to Arrowsmith, 
who stated in an advertisement, that, finding wide 
differences between the positions of the towns as shown 
in the journal by each day’s travel and that furnished 
by the astronomical observations, it was impossible 
to reconcile them, but that, in accordance with the 
latter he had been obliged to place the route followed 
by Mungo Park in his first voyage farther north. 
‘It was reserved for the Frenchman Walknaer to 
discover a curious discrepancy in Mungo Park’s journal. 
This was a singular error upon the part of the traveller, 
