i/O Notes on the Congo River. 
The fatal termination of Park’s career in 1805 
lulled public curiosity for a time, but it presently 
revived. The geographical mind was still excited 
by the mysterious stream which evaporation or 
dispersion drained into the Lake-swamps of Wan- 
gara, and to this was added not a little curiosity 
concerning the lamented and popular explorer’s 
fate. We find instructions concerning Mungo 
Park issued even to cruizers collecting political and 
other information upon the East African coast; 
e.g. f to Captain Smee, sent in 1811 by the Bombay 
Government. His companion, Lieutenant Hardy, 
converted Usagara, west of the Zanzibar seaboard, 
into “Wangarah,” and remarks, “a white man, 
supposed to be Park, is said to have travelled here 
twenty years ago ” (“ Observations,” &c.). 
About ten years after Mungo Park’s death, two 
expeditions were fitted out by Government to 
follow up his discovery. Major Peddie proceeded 
to descend the Niger, and Captain Tuckey to 
ascend the Congo. We have nothing to say of the 
former journey except that, as in the latter, every 
chief European officer died—Major Peddie, Captain 
Campbell, Lieutenant Stokoe, and M. Kummer, 
the naturalist. The expedition, consisting of 100 
men and 200 animals, reached Kakundy June 13, 
1817, and there fell to pieces. Concerning the 
Zaire Expedition, which left Deptford on Febru¬ 
ary 16, 1816, a few words are advisable,. 
