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Park, Mungo Mungo Park, miniature after Henry Edridge; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Mungo Park

Scottish explorer
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Mungo Park (born Sept. 10, 1771, Fowlshiels, Selkirk, Scot.—died c. January 1806, near Bussa on the Niger River [now in Nigeria]) was a Scottish explorer of the Niger. Educated as a surgeon at the University of Edinburgh, Park was appointed a medical officer in 1792 on a vessel engaged in the East Indies trade. His subsequent studies of the plant and animal life of Sumatra won for him the backing of the African Association to...

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