Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 ... / by Mungo Park ; With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell.

  • Mungo Park
Date:
1799
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Credit: Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 ... / by Mungo Park ; With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The following Journal, drawn up from original minutes and notices made at the proper moment and preserved with great difficulty, is now offered to the Public by the direction of my noble and honourable employers, the Members of the African Association. I regret that it is so little commensurate to the patronage I have received. As a composition, it has nothing to recommend it, but truth. It is a plain, unvarnished tale; without pretensions of any kind, except that it claims to enlarge, in some degree, the circle of African geography. For this purpose, my services were offered, and accepted by the Association; and, I trust, I have not laboured altogether in vain. The work, however, must speak for itself; and I should not have thought any pre- liminary observations necessary, if I did not consider myself called upon, both by justice and gratitude, to offer those which follow. Immediately after my return frorrt Africa, the acting Com- mittee of the Association,* taking notice of the time it would * This Committee consists of the following Noblemen and Gentlemen ; Earl of Moira, Lord Bishop of Landaff, Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, President of the