Niger

fact that a ship from the Leeward Islands, bound
for England, touched at Antigua for mails on the
24th of November. Mungo immediately booked
a passage.
A month later, the 22nd of December, 1797, he
arrived in England after an absence of two years
and seven months. As he told to an intimate later,
when he saw the English shore he laid his head on
his hands and wept with gratitude that God had so
cared for him and guided him as to bring him back
to land that had seemed no more than a mirage
in the dark tents of Bubaker.
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