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tered by Park in Africa. These range from the ominous to the sensually exquisite. For example, one journal entry discusses the ravages taken from yellow fever, malaria, and dysentery, in the interior of West Africa, including Park’s chronicling of the chant which described the horror of the region “Beware and take care of the Bight of Benin,/For one that comes out there are forty goes in” (Roberts 1). In other accounts from Park’s journal, we see that his explorations included the di

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