[1] Extract from _The Cream of Curiosity_, by Reginald L. Hine, 1920,
pp. 291-316.
[2] To this day no news has reached England of Isaaco's death, and
indeed after all he survived it seems impossible that he should ever
die.
[3] Isaaco was better able to appreciate their music than Mungo Park.
In one item of his accounts, the latter writes: "To the native singers
for singing their nonsense."
[4] It must be remembered that Isaaco was writing a government report
and careful to suppress all signs of indecorum. What a heap of money
one would give to possess his private, unexpurgated journal!
[5] A priest of Yaour to whom Amady Fatouma, the guide, had given a
small present from Mungo Park.
[6] Mansong had sold it to Park for a quantity of firearms. It was
half rotten and took eighteen days to make water-tight. Forty feet
long by six broad and flat-bottomed. They christened it "His Majesty's
Schooner Joliba."