44 VARIOUS LETTERS gier 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 , a Moor, sent inland by the Governor, for the purpose of enquiry. In a letter to Mr. Dickson, of Coventgarden, brother-in-law to Mr. Park, Sir Joseph thus writes : — *' I have read Isaco's translated journal ; by which it appears, that the numerous European retinue of Mungo Park quickly and miserably Isaco was a Jew, not a Moor.— J. G. J.