A voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Goreé, and the River Gambia / By M. Adanson ... Translated from the French. With notes by an English gentleman who resided some time in that country.

  • Michel Adanson
Date:
1759
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Credit: A voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Goreé, and the River Gambia / By M. Adanson ... Translated from the French. With notes by an English gentleman who resided some time in that country. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ble of cooling my courage. I had an 1749. amazing good date of health; and this November] bore me up in the midd of fo many pe¬ rils and toils, under which a great many would have funk. » ». “ The feventh of November there hap- . 7^ pened to me an adventure, far more cri- adventure- tical and more terrifying than any I had hitherto met with. I ufed alternately to walk on either bank of the river, but that day I happened to be on the north- fide. I walked and courfed in a defert country, that had never been cultiva¬ ted, over-run with wood, as ancient as the country itfelf, and the thicknefs of which, independently of the wild beads that lurk there, ought naturally to have filled me with horror. In Ipite of the dangers and inconveniences infeparable from this kind of fport, my curiofity led me into the thicked parts of the wood, invited by the animals, plants, and birds, of which there was prodigious plenty. The negroe, whom I had ta¬ ken
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