The life of Mungo Park - signed H.B. Author:H. B. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Park effects hit escape — He suffers greatly from thirst— Character of the Moors—Enters the Negro territory—Negro prejudices in faeour of White M... more »en — Discoeers the Niger flawing eastward — He arriee at Sego — Conduct of Mansong — He continues his journey to Sifla — Adopts the resolution of returning —Difficulties —Sufferings — Subsists by writing saphies—He arriees at Kamalia in a state of great wretchedness — Is hospitably entertained by Karfa Taura — Joins a Kaffila proceeding to the Gambia—Arriees at Pisania -— Proceeds to England by the West Indies, and lands at Falmouth. Park had now passed three months in this hopeless state of captivity among the Moors, when a favourable change took place in his situation. Some refugees from Kaarta, having entered into a negotiation with Ali, endeavoured to obtain from him the assistance of a party of Moorish horsemen, for an invasion which they were contemplating against their native country. The King of Ludamar thought this a good opportunity of extorting money from these malcontents, and accordingly prepared to go in person with some troops to Jarra, his frontier town on the side of Kaarta. Park, having solicited and obtained the all-powerful intercession of Queen Fatima, was permitted to accompany the expedition, and thus, at length, he felt himself entitled to indulge the confident hope that his captivity was about to terminate; for, once arrived at Jarra, he had no doubt that he would find means of effecting his escape from the Moorish territories. In this hope he was ultimately not disappointed ; but he was yet in the power of Ali, a circumstance which that tyrant took care he should not forget. On their way to Jarra, he deprived the traveller of his faithful and affectionate boy Demba, whom he sent back to the ...« less