[199]And it may also have been the scene of the traffic mentioned in [page lxxxvii;] as Dr. Wadstrom speaks of such a custom in this quarter, at the present day.
[200]Pliny (lib. v. c. 8.) also speaks of the Leucæthiopes, but seems to place them on this side of Nigritia. May it not be, that certain tribes of Foulahs were then established, as at present, along the Senegal river!
POSTSCRIPT.
The incident of the Negro Song, related in the 15th Chapter of this work ([p. 198]), having been communicated to a Lady, who is not more distinguished for her rank, than for her beauty and accomplishments; she was pleased to think so highly of this simple and unpremeditated effusion, as to make a version of it with her own pen; and cause it to be set to music by an eminent Composer. With this elegant production, in both parts of which the plaintive simplicity of the original is preserved and improved, the Author thinks himself highly honoured in being permitted to adorn his book; and he laments only that he had not an opportunity of inserting it in its proper place in the body of the work.
A NEGRO SONG,
FROM MR. PARK’S TRAVELS.
I.
The loud wind roar’d, the rain fell fast;
The White Man yielded to the blast: