Africa. Niger

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Having thought, it has come to conclusion, that in connection with approach of a season of rains when a ground razmok and to go further difficultly, and ' to wait for good and favour in district where moors ' use such influence, is useless,-move further ' meant more and more to betray itself in hands of these ruthless fanatics '. It is a lot of data on Niger to it to collect it was not possible.

' All natives interrogated by me, he-has written down in a diary, - know nothing. Trading affairs seldom force them to get further cities of Timbuktu or the House, and such questions as the current of the rivers or country geography, them interest a little. It seems to me, however, extremely probable, that Niger is convenient and safe by the message between very far apart the living people '.

On the inquiries about where the river comes to an end, the Park received the invariable answer: ' On the brink of light '.

On July, 30th, 1796 the Park has left coast of Niger and has gone to return travel. For some time illness has forced it to interrupt travel. It has taken advantage of it, that; to make some supervision not deprived of interest.

' When the wind blows from the northeast, he-wrote, amazingly changes all shape of the country; the grass soon dries up and fades, the rivers quickly melejut, and from many trees the foliage falls down. During this period the dry and burning northeast wind usually named harmattan, bearing with, self dense fumes or steam through which tusklokrasnym colour the sun shines blows. Absolutely having dried up over great desert Sahara, this wind aspires extend a moisture whence only can, and consequently dries up everything., over what it is carried by... During time of a rainy season air: it is so sated by a moisture, that the dress, footwear, suitcases and in general everything, that is not near to fire, becomes crude and damp; so it is possible to tell, that people should live in the present steam bath. But, when the dry wind will blow, all softened firm substances get stronger again, spirit podymaetsja and even somehow it is easy to breathe. Badly only that from it lips burst and at many natives eyes ' are ill.

While the Park had a rest and recovered from illness in Kumalii, it used any possibility to collect data on the country and its inhabitants. On April, 19th it left again to coast, whence has sailed to West Indies, and on December, 22nd, after lasting two years and seven months of absence, has landed, at last, in England.