imprudent, and generally proved fatal. Some had one, two, or three,
some more biles, generally in the groin, under the arm, or near the
breast; some had more. Some had no biles, nor any outward
disfiguration; these were invariably carried off in less than
twenty-four hours. I recommended Mr. Baldwin's remedy[235], applied
according to his directions; and I do not know one instance of its
failing, when properly applied, and sufficiently persevered in.

[Footnote 235: Of unction of the body with olive oil.]

I have no doubt but the epidemy, which has been ravaging Spain
lately, is the same disorder with the one above described. We have
been told that it was communicated originally to Spain by two
424 infected persons, who went from Tangier to Estapona, and eluded the
vigilance of the guards. We have been assured that it was
communicated by some persons infected, who landed in Spain from a
vessel that had loaded produce at Laraich, in West Barbary. We have
also been informed that a Spanish privateer, which had occasion to
land its crew for water in some part of West Barbary, caught the
infection, and afterwards went to Cadiz and communicated it to the
town.

JAMES G. JACKSON.

_Death of Mungo Park_.

May, 1812.

The doubts which may have existed of the fate of this eminent man
are now removed, by the certain accounts lately received from
Goree, of his having perished, through the hostility of the
natives, on one of the branches of the Niger. The particulars have
been transmitted to Sir Joseph Banks, by Governor Maxwell, of
Goree, who received them from Isaco[236], a Moor, sent inland by
the Governor, for the purpose of enquiry. In a letter to Mr.
Dickson, of Covent-garden, brother-in-law to Mr. Park, Sir Joseph
thus writes:--

"I have read Isaco's translated journal; by which it appears, that
425 the numerous European retinue of Mungq Park quickly and miserably
died, leaving, at the last, only himself and a Mr. Martyn.
Proceeding on their route, they stopped at a settlement, from
which, according to custom, they sent a present to the chief whose
territory they were next to pass. This present having been
treacherously withheld, the chief considered it, in the travellers,
as a designed injury and neglect. _On their approaching,