ON AFRICA. 425 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, in a canoe, he assembled his people on a narrow channel of rocks <=, and assailed them so violently with arrows, that some of the rowers were killed. This caused Mr. Park and Mr. Martyn to make an effort by swimming to reach the shore ; in which attempt they both were drowned. The canoe shortly afterwards sunk, and only one hired native escaped. Every appurtenance also of the travellers was lost or destroyed, except a swordbelt which had belonged to Mr. Martyn, and which Isaco redeemed, and brought with him to Goree."

Death of Mr, Rontgen, in an Attempt to explore the Interior of Africa, May, 1812. The young German gentleman of the name of Rontgen, who left England about a twelvemonth since for Africa, in order to prosecute * There is a remarkable confirmation of this quotation from Sir Joseph's letter in Mr. Jackson's translation of the Arabic manuscript of Mungo Park's death, for which see Bowdich's Account of a Mission to Ashantee, p. 480. ; also Annals of Oriental Literature, No. I.