DEATH OF MUNGO PARK. 415 ing researches in that part of the world. Two translations have been made of this curious do cument ; one by Mr. Salame, an Egyptian, who accompanied Viscount Exmouth in his attack on Algiers, as interpreter ; and the other by Mr* Jackson, formerly consul at one of the Barbary courts. The following is Mr. Salame's transla tion, from which, however, the one by Mr\ Jackson only differs in a trifling degree. The words in italics have been inserted by Mr. Salame, in order to render the reading more perfect, and are not in the original : ** A literal Trartslalion ofa Declaration uritten in a corrupted Arabic, from the Toxmi of Yaud in the Interior ofAfrica, " * In the name of God, the merciful and the munificent. This declaration is issued from the town called Yaud, in the county of Kossa. We (the writer) do witness the following case (statement.) We never saw, nor heard of the sea (fiver) called Koodd ; but we sat to hear (understood) the voice (report) of some persons, sayingy * We saw a ship, equal to her we never saw before; and the King of Yaud had sent plenty of every kind of food, with cows and sheep ; theie were two men, one woman, two male slaves, and two maids in the ship ; t/ie two white men were derived from the race (sect) of Nassri (Christ, or Christianity.) The King of