The voyage was beset by ill-omens from the very beginning however. In addition, the Michael J. Mungo Foundation donates approximately one million dollars annually to charitable organizations throughout the Midlands of South Carolina. However, commenting on the odd concept of the European ‘discovery’ of Africa, since as Hastings Banda declared, "there was nothing to discover, we were here all the time," McLynn suggests that while the notion is patronizing, what the process did was to build a bridge between Europe and Africa. His teacher was Sidi Ambak Bubi, a native of Mogador, whose behaviour both amused and alarmed the people of Peebles.
Mungo Park was the brother of Willie Park Snr, who won The Open four times, and David Park, who played in The Open several times. It was he who proposed Park for the Linnean Society, and he was seconded by John Fairburn. Again supported by Sir Joseph Banks, Park was selected. Then, making his way to Pisania, he caught a boat which eventually arrived in Falmouth in December 1797. On the one hand, Park ‘was no proletarian’ but on the other ‘as the seventh child of twelve children in a middle-class family of reduced circumstances, he was aware that he had to work hard for worldly success.’ [4]On his return in 1793, Park gave a lecture describing eight new Sumatran fishes to the Linnaean Society. It is undoubtedly not a coincidence that the soon-to-be-famous Park was studying at the University of Edinburgh during the Age of Enlightenment in Scotland. Famously, when he ‘first clapped eyes on the Niger’ he remarked to the King of the Bambara that he had ‘come a long distance through many dangers just to behold it’ which provoked the response whether his own country had no rivers’ that he had to endure such hardship when most rivers looked much the same. Later in 1794 Banks, using his influence on the board of the African Association,suggested that Park would be an ideal person to ascertain the course of the river Niger since Houghton, a previous explorer sent out to do this in 1790, had disappeared without trace. On June 21, 1795 he reached the Gambia River and ascended the river 200 miles to a British trading station named Pisania. Though all the Europeans who are with me should die, and though I were myself half dead, I would still persevere, and if I could not succeed in the object of my journey, I would at least die on the Niger." Mungo Park was born on 10th September 1771 at Fowlshiels on the Yarrow near Selkirk, where his parents farmed on the estate of the Duke of Buccleuch. He left four children, all of whom received £7000 from the Colonial Office. The Colonial Office on the other hand, issued him a warrant “To pursue the course of the Niger to the utmost possible distance it can be traced”. Starting in the mid
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