<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Scientific career </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Fields </Th> <Td> Exploration Surgery </Td> </Tr> <P> Mungo Park (11 September 1771--1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa . He was the first Westerner known to have travelled to the central portion of the Niger River, and his account of his travels is still in print . </P> <P> Mungo Park was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland, at Foulshiels on the Yarrow Water, near Selkirk, on a tenant farm which his father rented from the Duke of Buccleuch . He was the seventh in a family of thirteen . Although tenant farmers, the Parks were relatively well - off . They were able to pay for Park to receive a good education, and Park's father died leaving property valued at £ 3,000 (equivalent to £ 222,289 in 2016). His parents had originally intended him for the Church of Scotland . </P>

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