One of the first steps which government adopted on the arrival of Richard Lander, was to issue an order to the authorities at Cape Coast Castle, to pay to King Boy the whole of his demand for the ransom of the Landers, and thereby re-establishing that faith and good opinion with the natives of the country, touching the honour and integrity of the English character.

This journey by individuals who make no pretensions to science, has not afforded materials for the illustration of any of its branches, but previously to the loss of the instruments, the range of the thermometer is recorded.  At Badagry, on the coast, where the heat was most oppressive, it was between 86 deg. and 94 deg., oftener stationary near the latter than the former point.  At Jenna it fell suddenly one day from 94 deg. to 78 deg., and remained stationary for some hours.  At Assinara at noon, on the 23rd April it attained the height of 99 deg..  Near Katunga it fell upon one occasion to 71 deg. in the shade, the air being then cooler than they had felt it since landing.  At Kiama the extremes were 75 deg. and 94 deg., the mean 84 deg..  At Youri, the range was the same.  On their voyage from Youri to Boussa, on the 2nd August, it varied from 75 deg. to 92 deg..  At Boussa it varied from 76 deg. to 93 deg., but most commonly between 80 deg. and 90 deg..  At Patashie, generally between 74 deg. and 89 deg., once 93 deg..  Lever 77 deg. to 93 deg..  Bajiebo 70 deg. to 95 deg..  On the passage down the river below that place, on the 5th October, 78 deg. to 94 deg..  Belee 79 deg. to 94 deg..  Such has been the issue of this important voyage, by which the grand problem that perplexed Europe during so many ages, and on which, for a period of nearly forty years, so many efforts and sacrifices had been expended in vain, was completely solved.  British enterprise completed, as it had begun this great discovery.  Park in his first journey reached the banks of the Niger, and saw it rolling its waters towards the interior of the continent.  In the second he embarked at Bammakoo, and by sailing downwards to Boussa, proved its continuous progress for upwards of a thousand miles.  The present voyage has exhibited it following a farther course, which with its windings must amount to about eight hundred miles, and finally emptying itself into the Atlantic.  This celebrated stream is now divested of that mysterious character, which surrounded it with a species of supernatural interest.  Rising in a chain of high mountains, flowing through extensive plains, receiving large tributaries, and terminating in the ocean, it exhibits exactly the ordinary phenomena of a great river.  But by this discovery we see opened to our view a train of most important consequences.  The Niger affords a channel of communication with the most fertile, most industrious, and most improved regions of interior Africa.  Its navigation is very easy and safe, unless at intervals between Boussa and Youri, and between Patashie and Lever, and even there it becomes