"And You Will Be Then At Liberty To Pursue Your Route Homewards By Any
Line You Shall Think Most Secure, Either By Taking A New Direction
Through The Interior Towards The Atlantic, Or By Marching Upon Cairo, By
Taking The Route Leading To Tripoli.
"You are hereby empowered to draw for any sum that you may be in want of,
not exceeding L5000, upon the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury, or upon
such a mercantile banking-house in London as you may fix upon.
I am, &c.
"(Signed) CAMDEN.
"_To Mungo Park, Esq. &c. &c. &c._"
Before Park departed, Government had generously resolved, that, in
addition to a handsome reward for his own services, the sum of L4000
should be settled upon his wife and family, in the event of his death or
non-appearance after a certain stipulated time. Nothing, therefore,
remained but that he should finally settle his affairs, and take an
affectionate farewell of his friends, who bade adieu to him with a heavy
heart, fearing that they would never see his face again.
CHAPTER XXIX.
_Park's Second Journey - The Gambia to Bambakoo._
On the 30th January 1805, Park, accompanied by Mr. Anderson, his
brother-in-law, who was to be second in command of the expedition, and
Mr. Scott, a friend and neighbour, who went as draftsman, together with
four or five artificers from the dockyards, set sail from Portsmouth in
the Crescent transport, and reached Port Prayo Bay in St. Jago on the 8th
March, after a very stormy passage.
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