Excerpt from Travels in the Interior of Africa, by Mungo Park, Including His Second Journey, in 1906, and in Southern Africa
Trade, one ofthe chiefaonrees ofthe improvement ofgeo graphical science, has contributed little to lay opemnleastto Europeans, the interior ofafrica. A traficofthemoatncfa rions kind has induced them, indeed, toexplore many partsof the coast with tolerable accuracy; but this trafiic, while it caused the Europeans studionely to vilil'y the character ofthe Africans, has, atthesametime, tended todebaaetbedispoaition Ofthe negroes, to perpetuate their uncivilized state, and no create in their minds an inanperable aversion to white men. Instead, therefore, of promoting our knowledge Of Africa,thiscommerce has powerfully retarded it; has filled the world with false no tions of a numerous class of men and has opposed obstacles to the more accurate survey of this region which may not easily be removed.
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