600 PAR 
they advanced, the number of hoftile canoes increafed, 
till at length it amounted to fixty, and in felf-defence 
they killed a very confiderable number of perfons ; their 
own number being now reduced, by the death of one of 
‘he white men, to eight. At length, having paffed Kaffo 
and Gourmon, and having fupplied themfelves with pro- 
vifions, they entered the country of Haouffa. The king 
of the country, having received information from the 
chief of Yaour, a village in this diftridf, that the white 
men had departed without giving them any prefents, fent 
an army to a village called Bouffa, near the fide of the 
river, which was polled on the top of a rock that tra- 
verfed the river, in which rock there was a large cleft or 
opening that admitted the water to pafs in a ftrong cur¬ 
rent ; and, w hen Mr. Park arrived at this opening, and 
attempted to pafs, he was attacked with lances, pikes, 
arrows, and (tones; againft which he for fome time refo- 
lutely defended himfelf, till, at length overpowered by 
numbers and fatigue, and unable to keep up the canoe 
againft the current, Mr. Park laid hold of one of the 
white men and jumped into the water; Mr. Martyn did 
the fame, and they were drowned in the ftream in at¬ 
tempting to efcape. One Have was left, and they took 
him and the canoe, and carried them to the king. 
Amadi, after having been kept in prifon for three months, 
was releafed ; and obtained information from the furvi- 
ving flave, concerning the manner in which Mr. Park 
and his companions had died. Nothing was left in the 
canoe but a ( word-belt, of which the king had made a girth 
for his horfe; and this belt Ifaaco afterwards recovered. 
Amadi, according to Ifaaco’s report, was a good up¬ 
right man, and delivered the above account to him on 
oath; nor could he have any intereft in deceiving him. 
From circumftances it is concluded, that Mr. Park died 
four months after his departure from Sanfanding. 
The leading parts of Mungo Park’s character muft 
have been anticipated by the reader in the principal 
events and tranfadlions of his life. Of his enterprifing 
fpirit, his indefatigable vigilance and activity, his calm 
fortitude and unfhaken perfeverance, he has left perma¬ 
nent memorials in the narrative of his former travels and 
in the journal and correfpondence fince publilhed. In 
thefe refpePts few travellers have equalled, none certainly 
ever furpafl'ed, him. Nor were the qualities of his un- 
derftanding lefs valuable or confpicuous : he W'as diftin- 
guifhed by a correPtnefs of judgment feldom found uni¬ 
ted with an ardent and adventurous turn of mind, and 
generally deemed incompatible with it. His talents cer¬ 
tainly w'ere not brilliant, but folid and ufeful, fuch as were 
peculiarly fuited to a traveller and geographical difco- 
verer. Hence, in his accounts of new and unknown 
countries, he is confident and rational ; he is betrayed 
into no exaggeration, nor does he exhibit any traces of 
credulity or enthufiafm. His attention was diredted ex- 
clufively to fails ; and, except in his opinion relative to 
the termination of the Niger, (which he fupported by 
very plaufible arguments,) he rarely indulged in conjec¬ 
ture, much lefs in hypothefis or fpecnlation. 
In all the relations of private life he appears to have 
been highly exemplary ; and his conduct as a fon, a huf- 
band, and a father, merited every praife. To the more 
gentle and amiable parts of his character, the mod cer¬ 
tain of all teftimonies may be found in the warm attach¬ 
ment of his friends, and in the fond and affectionate re¬ 
collections of every branch of his family. He was a 
ftranger to all vanity and affedtation ; and, notwithftar.d- 
ing his great popularity and luccefs, appears to have loft 
no portion of the genuine (Implicity of his charadterand 
manners. This (implicity originated perhaps in a confi¬ 
derable degree from a certain coldnefs and referve, which, 
as was before remarked, rendered him very indifferent, 
and perhaps fomewhat averfe, to mixed or general fociety. 
It was probably owing to the lame caufe that his conver- 
fation, for a man who had feen fo much, had nothing 
remarkable, and was rarely ftriking or animated. Hence, 
PAR 
although his appearance was interefting and prepoffefling, 
he was apt to difappoint the expectations of ft rangers : 
and thole perfons who eftimated his general talents from 
his powers of converfation, formed an erroneous and in¬ 
adequate opinion of his merits. In his perfon he was 
tall, being about fix feet high, and perfectly well pro¬ 
portioned. His countenance and whole appearance was 
highly interefting; his frame was adtive and robnlt, fitted 
for great exertions and the endurance of hardftiips. His 
conlfitution had buffered confiderably from the effedfs of 
his firft journey into Africa; but feems afterwards to have 
been reftored to its.original vigour, of which his laft ex¬ 
pedition afforded the moll ample proofs. The fecond 
volume of his Travel*, entitled “Journal of a Miffion 
into the Interior of Africa in the Year 1805,” with his 
Life prefixed, and from which the above article is col¬ 
lected, was publifhed by the African Inftiiution, in 
1815, 4to. and a new edition was publifhed, in 8vo. in 
1816. 
PAR'K-LEAVES. See Hypericum. 
PAR'KANY, a town of Hungary, at the conflux of 
the rivers Gran and Danube: two miles north of Gran, 
and fourteen eaft of Comorn. 
PAR'KEL, a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda: 
thirty-two miles fouth-fouth-weft of Hydrabad. 
PAR'KER, J\ A park-keeper.—To make good fuch a 
juftification by a par her, forefter, or warrener, there are 
thefe"things requiiite. Hale. 
A doe came trippyng in at the rere ward ; 
But, lorde, how the parker was wroth with all 1 Skeltnn. 
PAR'KER, a townfhip of Butler county, in Pennfyl- 
vania, having 399 inhabitants. 
PAR'KER (Matthew), the fecond proteftant archbifhop 
of Canterbury, and a prelate of confiderable abilities and 
learning, was the fon of a fubftantial tradefman of Nor¬ 
wich, where he was born in the year 1504. When only 
twelve years of age he loft his father; but his mother 
took care to place him under the inftrudtion of good maf-> 
ters, by whom he was well grounded in grammar-learn¬ 
ing. In the year 1520 he was fent to the univerfity of 
Cambridge, where he entered of Corpus-Chrilti college; 
of which houfe he was chofen a bible-clerk, or fcholar, 
in the following year; in 1523 he was admitted to the 
degree of B. A. in 1527 he was ordained deacon, and af¬ 
terwards prieft ; and in the fame year he commenced M. A. 
and was chcfen fellow of his coliege. In 1533, wdien he 
was about nine-and twenty years of age, he preached his 
firft fermon before the univerfity ; and almoft immediately 
became a popular preacher in the neighbourhood of Cam¬ 
bridge. He had by this time imbibed the principles of 
the Reformation, and fhou'ed fo much zeal for them, that 
archbifhop Cranmer granted him a licence to preach 
throughout his province. About this time he was fent 
for to court, and was made chaplain to queen Anne Bo- 
leyn, who appointed him, a (liort time before her death, 
to the particular charge of her daughter Elizabeth. 
About the year 1334116 was prefented by the queen to 
the deanery of the college of Stoke, near Clare, in Suf¬ 
folk ; a preferment of (mall value in a pecuniary view, 
but affording him a pleafing place of retirement, when 
lie chole to withdraw from the court, from which it was 
about twenty miles diftance. Here belaboured to reform 
the popifh fuperftitions ; and founded a grammar-fchool, 
for the inftrudtion of youth in found learning, and in the 
principles of the Chriltian religion, at which the children 
of the poor were taught gratis. Mr. Parker (till conti¬ 
nued to preach afliduoufly at Stoke, Cambridge, and 
other places ; and fometimes in London, at St. Paul’s 
Crofs. 
In the year 1537, after the death of queen Anne Bo- 
leyn, king Henry VIII. took Mr. Parker into his own 
fervice, appointing him one of his chaplains. In 1538 
lie was created D.D. in 1541, inftalled prebendary in the 
cathedral church of Ely, and in the following year pre¬ 
fented 
