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Rennell, Dean of Winchester, but was withheld from publication for the strange reason that there was so strong an aversion to the establishment of episcopacy in India, that it was thought better not to attract attention to the fact that had just been accomplished.
This objection is urged with great force by Major Rennell, who justly considers it as being entirely decisive of the question; but he has added several other arguments, which those who take an interest in this question, will do well to consult. Maxwell, an experienced African trader, who appears from his letters to have been a man of observation and intelligence.
This feeling about birds in captivity, which I have attempted to describe, and which, I repeat, is not sentimentality, as that word is ordinarily understood, has been so vividly rendered in an ode to "The Skylarks" by Sir Rennell Rodd, that the reader will probably feel grateful to me for quoting a portion of it in this place, especially as the volume in which it appears Feda, with Other Poems is, I imagine, not very widely known: "Oh, the sky, the sky, the open sky, For the home of a song-bird's heart!
"P. S. Have the goodness to remember me most kindly to my friend Major Rennell." To the Earl Camden, One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, &c. &c. &c. On board of H. M. Schooner Joliba, at anchor off Sansanding, November 17, 1805. "I have herewith sent you an account of each day's proceedings since we left Kayee.
After his return from Africa, Park remained for a considerable time stationary in London, and was diligently employed in arranging the materials for his intended publication. He had frequent occasion, also, to communicate on the subject of his discoveries with the members of the African Association, especially with Major Rennell and Mr.
Major Rennell calls them the "Leucœthiopes of Ptolemy and Pliny." Mr. D'Eichthal thinks them to be of Malay origin, on account of their language; but Dr. Pritchard considers them to be a genuine African race. His Excellency the Rais questions me on my rumoured Journey to Soudan. The Devil has in safe keeping all who are not Mahometans. I am wearing to a Skeleton. A Caravan of Women.
It is mentioned by Major Rennell in his very interesting account of the Ganges, that the sea in the bay of Bengal ceases to be affected by the waters of that river, and recovers its transparency, only at the distance of about twenty leagues from the coast.
On Park's return to London, his enthusiasm revived; and all doubts and difficulties were at an end. The doubts expressed by Major Rennell were of course, communicated by Park to the Secretary of State; but, as he accompanied the communication with his own answers and remarks, the objections were not deemed of sufficient weight to produce any material change in the intended arrangements.
It is therefore not very difficult to get on some little way into all at once; but I must not be disappointed if I find that other occupations take me away too much for my own pleasure from this particular branch of my work. A long letter to Sir John T. Coleridge gives another aspect of the voyage: "Sea Breeze" Schooner: off Rennell Island.
For it may be proper in this place to remark, that the formation of Deltas, even by rivers of the first magnitude, is by no means universal; some of the greatest that are known being without them. Of this the Amazon, Plata, and Oronoko are mentioned by Major Rennell as distinguished instances; to which may now be added, the Congo.
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