416 OBSERVATIONS ON THE NARRATIVE Mr. Mungo Park's death, whicli is deposited with the African Association, and decyphered and transcribed by me in Mr. Bowdich's account of a Mission to Ashantee, p. 4?0, 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, 1 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 eye without animadversion as the language of a foreigner, (as we have understood Mr. Salame to be,) but from the intelligent Editor of a London daily paper, might we not have expected more correct phraseology ?

** " The ship reached a head of mountain which took her away, and the men and women of Bassa, altogether with every kind of arms, and the ship could find no way to avoid the mountain."

1 have no hesitation in declaring to be incorrect the first two lines of Mr. Abraham Salame's "The phrases thus objected to by our learned Correspondent, were contained in the translations furnished to us in common with other papers, and not the language of the Editor. Indeed, this appears to be admitted by our Correspondent himself, in the apparently very just comraetits he has thus favoured us with, -r Ed itch."