Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797

M r . M. Park.
Publish’d April 5.1799, by G. Nicol, Pall Mall.
By MUNGO PARK, Surgeon.
WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING GEOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF AFRICA By MAJOR RENNELL.
egens Libyæ deserta peragro. Virg.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY W. BULMER AND CO. FOR THE AUTHOR; AND SOLD BY G. AND W. NICOL, BOOKSELLERS TO HIS MAJESTY, PALL-MALL. 1799.
TO THE NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN, ASSOCIATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPLORING THE INTERIOR REGIONS OF AFRICA, THIS JOURNAL OF TRAVELS ON THAT CONTINENT, PERFORMED UNDER THEIR PATRONAGE, IS, WITH ALL HUMILITY, INSCRIBED, BY THEIR FAITHFUL AND OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT,
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 preliminary observations necessary, if I did not consider myself called upon, both by justice and gratitude, to offer those which follow.
Availing myself therefore, on the present occasion, of assistance like this, it is impossible that I can present myself before the Public, without expressing how deeply and gratefully sensible I am of the honour and advantage which I derive from the labours of those Gentlemen; for Mr. Edwards has kindly permitted me to incorporate, as occasion offered, the whole of his narrative into different parts of my work; and Major Rennell, with equal good will, allows me not only to embellish and elucidate my Travels, with the Maps beforementioned, but also to subjoin his Geographical Illustrations entire .