4G6 modern ARABIC LANGUAGE Doubts having been made in the Daily Papers concerning the accuracy of the two following Translations of the Shereef Ibrahim's account ofMungo Park's Death ; thefollowing ObservationSy by the Author are laid before the Public in elucidation of those Translations, The following is a copy of a letter, supposed to be a description of Mungo Park's death ; brought to England from Ashantee in Africa, by Mr. Bowdich ; and that gentleman assured me, about six months after his arrival in England, and a few days previous to the publication of hi& interesting account of a mission to Ashantee, that he had by every means in his power endeavoured, but ineffectually, to get this manuscript decyphered and translated into English ; that he had sent it to several persons, who had retained it in their hands a considerable time, but had returned it without a decypher, or even a complete translation. When delivered into my hands, I transmitted him a decypher and a translation immediately. The following is my translation, which, in that gentleman's account of Ashantee, is coupled with another translation, not perspicuous, but unintelligible \ for which see Bowdich's " Account ofa Mission to Ashantee,'* Appendix, No. 2.

The originalArabic document, ofwhich I have given a decypher in the work before mentioned.