Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-12-01

them, but continued sailing EDWARDS.
The canoes followed !; and at last Mr..
rk,probably dreading hostile intention
fired upon them, but fortunately did not
kill any one. The canoes returned
but the King, anxious for the safety Of
the travellers, again sent people TO pro-
coed after them, requesting them TO
stop, and he would send people to show
them the safe and proper passage in the
channel of the river. The messengers
could not. however, overtake them.
Park continued his voyage till the YES
sci got amongst the rocks, off Boussa,
and was, in consequence, "broke."
BRINE Yaourie is in Houssa, but Boussa
is not. The latter is in the country
called Burgoo. BRINE Yaoure is by
land distant one days ,urney from Bou-
sa, but by water one day and half.
Duncanno described the place or pass
where the canoe was broke to be like
the cataracts in our mountains. The
water ran with great force. The Ca
noe was carried rapidly along, and be-
fore they could see their imminent dam
ger, ii struck with violence on some
rocks, and was dashed TO pieces.
The people of Boussa stood upon the
rocks projecting into the river, desir-
Gus, if possible, to afford the white men
assistance, but the catastrophe was so
su6tien, and the violence Of the stream
so great, that they could not reach them.
The break of the river on the rocks is
described as dreadful, the whirlpools
formed appalling, and the agitation of
the waters SO great as TO almost raise
the canoe on its end, and precipitate its
stem forwards into the CULTS below it.
At the moment the vessel struck, MIR.
Park held something in his hand, which
he threw into the water just as the yes
sci appeared 10 be going to pieces.
The So water was too bad,'' so agitated
that he could not swim, and he was seen
10 sink in it. There were "plenty" of
other white men in the canoe, all of
whom were drowned The river there
is as broad as from lie Fevre Point to
Tagrin Point, Sierra Leone, or above
four miles. There was black man, a
slave, who was saved from the canoe.
This black man spoke the Foulah Ian
gnage. and was a slave 10 Foulah man.
When Dnncanno left Yaourie, this man
was still in Boussa, but he knows moth
ing more Of him.
Duncanno asserted positively that no
person from Parks vessel landed at Biz
ME Yaourie; that the black was the on
Iy individual saved, and that that man
was left at Boussa. The people of
Boussa went in canoes 10 this "bad
place" in the river, where Parks YES
sci was broken, and he was drowned,
and some expert divers Owed into the
stream and picked up twelve pistols and
two long muskets. " Plenty ofPeople"
went from Brine Yaourie to Boussa to
see the wreck, after the King of Boussa
had sent 20 the King of Yaourie to in
form him Of the disaster. Park inform
ed the black man who was in the boat,
that in week or two he should carry
him with the canoe into "great o.
cean," where the water was salt
Thus far the simple narrative. 1t
bears the stamp Of truth upon it, and it
is impossible to reflect upon the catas-
trophe without feelings of the deepest
sorrow and regret at the loss of the en-
terPrizing traveller, when he was so
near completing his labor, and reaplng
all the reward of his toils.-Various ac-
counts, obtained through our present
channel of imormatioD, agree in stating,
that from below Boussa to Benin the
river is open and deep, and broad and
navigable.