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 MUNGO PARK. At this time Mungo Park, a young Scotch surgeon, who had just returned from a voyage to the East Indies on board the Worcester, learnt that the African Society were anxious to find an explorer willing to penetrate to the interior of the country watered by the Gambia. Mungo Park, who had long wished to acquaint himself with the productions of the country, and the manners and customs of the inhabitants offered his services. He was not deterred by the apprehension that his predecessor, Houghton, had probably perished.—Page 289. Vol. 15.