Col. Fitzclarence, when on his voyage down the
Mediterranean on board the _Tagus_ frigate, Capt. Dundas, with
despatches from the Marquis of Hastings, learnt from the governor
to the two sons of the Emperor of Marocco, who had been on a
pilgrimage to Mecca, and were then returning home, that he (Hadjee
415 Tahib) had been at Timbuctoo in 1807, and had heard of _two white_
men, who came from the sea, having been near that place the year
before; and that they sold beads, and had no money to purchase
grain. This person added, that they went down the _Nile_ to the
eastward, and that general report stated that they _died of the
climate_. There can be little doubt but the _two white_ men here
alluded to were Mr. Park and his companion, Lieutenant Martyn, who
were at Sandsanding in Nov. 1805, and could, in the following year,
have been near Timbuctoo. Sandsanding is the place from whence the
last dispatches were dated by Mr. Park; and Amadi Fatouma, who was
his guide afterwards, was sent to learn his fate, and returned with
an account of Mr. Park being drowned. The statement of this person
was, however, of such a nature as to excite suspicions of its
correctness; and hopes were entertained that Mr. Park had not met
with such an untimely fate. Fourteen years have now almost elapsed
since the date of his last dispatches; and this circumstance is of
itself sufficient to demonstrate, that he is to be added to the
catalogue of those who have perished in their attempts to explore
the interior of Africa.--_Englishman_."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH STATESMAN.

Sir;--Seeing in your Paper of yesterday a translation of the Arabic
416 manuscript respecting Mr. Mungo Park's death, which is deposited
with the African Association, and _decyphered and transcribed by
me_ in Mr. Bowdich's account of a Mission to Ashantee, p. 480, and
perceiving that the errors in _that translation_ are thus
propagated to the public through the medium of the London Papers;
which although perhaps of little consequence to the general reader,
yet, as they are of importance to the critic, and to the
investigator of African affairs, I shall take the liberty of
offering a few observations on the subject.

The following passage, in the translation above alluded to, might
have passed the public e