Mungo Park

For quite fair treatment of African character, French and German explorations are interesting, and in English, Mungo Park, Livingstone, and Gordon Pasha.

Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895. John Wesley Edward 1896

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805, by Mungo Park

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

Mungo Park was born on the 10th of September 1771, at Fowlshiels, a farm occupied by his father, under the duke of Buccleugh, on the banks of the Yarrow not far from the town of Selkirk.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

I sent back the man to let them know as the two kingdoms were at peace, I thought it secure and safe to travel through this part; that Mungo Park had promised King Mansong a present; and Mungo Park not returning, the Governor of Senegal had entrusted this same present to me for Mansong, and that I was now the bearer of it.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

I have heard the celebrated traveller Mungo Park, who had experienced both courses of life, rather give the preference to travelling as a discoverer in Africa, than to wandering by night and day the wilds of his native land in the capacity of a country medical practitioner.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

In consequence of this determination, Mungo Park was bound apprentice at the age of fifteen to Mr. Thomas Anderson, a respectable surgeon in Selkirk, with whom he resided three years; continuing, at the same time, to pursue his classical studies and to attend occasionally at the grammar school.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

Memoir delivered by Mungo Park, Esq. to Lord CAMDEN, on the 4th of October, 1804.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

In the death of Mungo Park we have to lament not only the loss of the most distinguished traveller of modern times, but the failure of an expedition, honourable to Great Britain and highly interesting to humanity and science.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

Not one child among the number interrogated had ever heard of Mungo Park, — some inquiring whether he was at all connected with the black man that swept the crossing; and others whether he was in any way related to the

Sketches by Boz 2007

Even Mungo Park preferred the rancid tallow-like shea butter to the best product of the cow.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003