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Title: Travels in the interior of Africa, to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia; performed by command of the French Government, in the year 1818
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Mollien, Gaspard Théodore, comte de, 1796-1872 Bowdich, T. Edward (Thomas Edward), 1791-1824 ed. cn Berthier, Pierre Eyriès, J. B. B. (Jean Baptiste Benoît), 1767-1846. cn
Subjects: Scientific expeditions
Publisher: London, H. Colburn & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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resent Slate of Bissao and theCountries which trade witli that Settlement.—The Author proceeds by Land toSt. Louis 315 APPENDIX. Examination of the Iron forged by the Negroes of Fouta Diallon, and of the Ores from which they procure it, by M. Berthier 349 Observations on the Discoveries in Africa anterior to the Travels of M. Mollien, on those made by him, and on the Map annexed to his Narrative, by J. B. B. Eyries. 355 Itinerary , 369 Vocabulary of the Joloff and Poula Languages 372 Vocabulary of the Serrere Language 378 LIST OF PI.ATES9 Which illuittrate this ffork. Plate I. Portrait of Dial Boukari, the Marabout who accompanied the Author in his Tour to face the title. II. Map of the Authors Route Page 1 III. The Author taking leave of his Friend at Dieddé 27 IV. View of Canel, and Army of Foutatoro 135V. View of the Sources of the Rio Grande and of the Gambia 233 VI. View of Timbo 265 VII. The Author on the Point of Death at Bandeia 271 VIII. Arrival of the Author at Bissao 325
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ii/Jftrf .»;■.J A.^ -r K^mf LmtÀL-n f^NtrtuU évllauv iJjjMT.tJ** J* TRAVELS SOURCES OF THE SENEGAL GAMBIA. CHAPTER I. Arrival in Africa.—Journey to the Escales, or Stations where theTraffic in Gum is carried on.— The Desert.— The Moors. 1 WAS on board the Medusa frigate in 1816, when she waswrecked to the south of Cape Blanco, on the west coast ofAfrica, and was one of those, who betook themselves to a boat,andgained the shore without accident. The fatigues which Iunderwent in reaching the banks of the Senegal, and the wildaspect of the country, could not destroy the ardent desirewhich I had felt from^ my infancy to traverse the interiorof Africa. I could not believe that the sterility Avhich markedthe space I had traversed, prevailed in those regions whereLeo ^ Africanus had placed cities of considerable magnitude :the discoveries of Mungo Park had convinced me of the B 2 ARRIVAL IN AFRICA. truth of the descriptions of the Arabian ^mtcr ; and far fromapprehending that I sh

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