I. [Guinea]facing page 1
II. [Mungo Park’s Travels]„ 47
III. [Libya Secundum Ptolomæum, A.C. 130]at end
IV. [Edrisi’s Africa, 1154]„
V. [Catalan, Map of the World, Western Half, 1375]„
VI. [Guinea and the Sudan, according to D’Anville, 1749]„
VII. [Guinea and the Sudan, according to J. Rennell, 1798]„

MAPS IN TEXT.

[O. Dapper, Nigritarum Regio, 1671]page 24
[O. Dapper, 1671]„ 25
[Reduced Fac-simile of Mungo Park’s Autograph Map]„ 185
[The Bussa Rapids]„ 241

[MUNGO PARK AND THE NIGER.]

[CHAPTER I.]
THE FIRST GLIMMERING OF LIGHT.

To find the first allusion to the River Niger we have to go back to the very dawn of history.