As He Strolled Along, Finding One Of The Entrances To The Gardens Of The British Museum Accidentally Left Open, He Entered And Walked About There For Some Time.

It chanced that Mr. Dickson, who superintended the gardens, had found occasion to go there thus early about some trifling matter or other.

What must have been his astonishment at beholding, by the still weak light, the form - or as it had rather seemed - the vision, of that relative, who had ever been in his most anxious thoughts, and whose countenance he had never expected again to see, or even to learn tidings of his fate. A joyful welcome of course ensued, and Park's anxieties concerning his relations, were speedily set at rest.

The interest attached to his return was by no means confined to his relations and friends - the public at large, whose sympathies had followed the traveller on his arduous way, were gratified to learn that he had again returned, after having made important discoveries, and tracked a considerable portion of the course of the Niger. Rumours were also current of his "hair-breadth 'scapes," and the lovers of novelty and adventure were anxious to hear the particulars of his wanderings. The African Association triumphed in the success of his mission, and were proud that the assiduous diligence of Park had, under such unfavourable circumstances, collected a mass of information which so far outweighed the results of all previous expeditions, and that they could therefore claim justly more support from the public.

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