Harley-Street, London,
My Dear Sir, 12th December, 1797.
I thank you warmly for your intelligence concerning the interior of
Africa, and beg you will continue to favour me with all the
information you can collect upon this subject. Mr. Park has been
almost as far as Jinnie, but did not reach Timbuctoo; he is now on
his way to England, in an American ship, via America. We are
anxious for his arrival, which may be expected in the course of the
present month; and all the Africani are extremely curious to hear
the detail of his most interesting journey, which we hope will
produce some authentic knowledge, of a considerable part of those
regions, that have hitherto baffled all the ardour and energy of
European enquiry, though they have always excited the curiosity of
the most eminent and enlightened men, both in past and present
times.