The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-08-02

honest policy. They wore English
dresses, and they declared themselves
Christians and it every where appear
ed, that though the second of these IL
ties was no recommendation, still that
OF Eaglishman' was sufficient even for
more than counterbalanciDg the other.
As 10 the loss of the lives Of MuDgo
Park and lis companions, il appears,
from the united bearing of even some
what diversified accounts, to have re-
suited partly from casualty, and partly
from mutual misapprehensions between
themselves and the people of the coun-
try. The following is the statement of
Sultan Bello -
) He thea spoke of Nungo Park, and
said, that, had he come in the rainy sea-
son, he would have passed the rocks
but that the river fell so low in the dry
season, boats could only pass at certain
point. He told me that some timbeFs Of
the boat, fastened together. with nails,
remained long time on the rocks, and
that a double-barrelled gun, taken 10
The boat, was once in his possession,
but 1t had lately burst. His cousin, Alb
derachman, however, bad small print
ed book taken out of the boat, but he
was now absent on an expedition 10
] Nyffee. The other books were in the
hands of the Sultan of YOUR, who was
tributary TO him. told the Sultan if
he Could procure these articles for The
King of England, they would prove
most acceptable present; and he prom
ised 10 make every exertion in his
power:'
The return of the travellers from
BorHou, across the Great Desert TO Fey
zan and Tripoll, is full of interest,"
The fatigue and difficulty of journey
10 Bornou,' says Major Denham, is not
to be compared with return to Fez-,
zan.'
AT Ghirza the travellers found the
remains of some buildings, said to be
Roman and Major Denham copied.
some monumental Inscriptions. The
language is Latin, but the proper names
bafbaric; aud, what is chiefly remarka-
BILE, is an apparently customary form Of
conclusion. in which i is said of the de-
ceased, May they descend upon their
posterlty, and make them like tRemselpes;r
: Vlsitent filios eli nepotes meos, ct tales
faciant'
II is observable, that in the Afahome-
tan and tropical countries visited by
Messrs. Denham and Clapperton, TO the
southwark Of the Great Desert, we hear
not syllable Of the plague, that scourge
of the MahometaD shores of the Medi-
terranean. Fever and ague, rains and
heats fatal 10 the natives, more fatal to-
the Arabs, and more dangerous still TO-
Europeans, afflict Bornou ard Soudan >
but these latter countries have no share
of the plague; and if personal cieanli-
ness is source Of exemption, they
seem to possess the title.
The present travellers have behelG
in Africa countries Astounding in grain,
| cattle, milk, and honey--in inhabitants,
arts, and MISUNDERSTANDING walled hous-
es, wealthy and poor-crowded mar
kets and fhronged roads-a surface Gov
cred with luxuriant heritage and groves
watered with large and numerous
streams and lskes-and yet countries
from which Deither the population nor
| the hrsbandry has made sufficient head
against beasts Of prey, nor against marsh
es with their agues and destructive IN,
sect tribes; and themselves alternately
the perpetrators and the victims Of ma
tional violence. Such is hasty and
feeble sketch Of the interesting ard inn
portant picture of the physical, polIttcal,s
moral, and religious state of the fertIIe=
and populous regions of Northern and
Central Africa. Now, when we have
obtained first glimpse of their features
and nov when they are as yet wheB '
untouched--wholly unpuri6ed or untalnt.
ed by European intercourse-how iu :
possible is it for the real philanthropy lst
not to gaze with,anxiety upon regT ons
| thus beautiful-upon myriads of men
thus happy, thus miserabIe--thus .jnno.
cent, thus wicked--thus industrious, thus
idle--thus frugal, thus content-- thu:
ignorant, thus taught land not Iool,
forward with trembling anxiety . o the
solution Of the great moral probI en-
Will European, that is, will EngI .ish 10.
tercourse augment or diminish y .le sum
of human happiness in those pN is Of AT.
RIGA?
Touching .anecdote.---The following
touching anecdote, which NJ adame dc
Genlis recounts in the eighth volume Of
her Memoirs, is not 10 be. matched =
Z" In speaking of noble actions and. char
acter, must here make ID eniio,. Of an
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