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| Keywords: Mungo Park miniature.jpg Miniature portrait of Mungo Park bust-length with powdered hair white cravat and buttoned jacket on mica oval 9 5 x 7 5cm Footnote Mungo Park a Scottish surgeon and explorer was sent out by the 'Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa' to discover the course of the River Niger Having achieved a degree of fame from his first trip carried out alone and on foot he returned to Africa with a party of 40 Europeans all of whom lost their lives in the expedition http //www bearnes co uk/Catalogues/Se040706/page9 htm PD-art Mungo Park | ||||
