Manners— Prisoners from St. Jago—.Going to Mass.—Arrival of Despatches
from Lisbon.—St. Antonio—Departure for the River Gambia.
— Character of the Ownef of % SchoQner.-^St. Jago. —Arrival at
Bathurst.—Mr. Bowdich’s Illness and Death . . . . 173
C h a p t e r II—Bathurst founded— Situation and Climate of Banjole Harmattans.—
Description of the town of Bathurst Population—Building
stone.—Gillyfree.—Albreda.— Slave dealing.—Mac. Carthy’s Island —
Account of the manners and costume of the Joloffs and Mandingo'es.__
Gold.—Manufactures— Music. —Dancing.—Horses.—Governments. —
Alarms ._ . . . . . 200
C h a p t e r III.— Bakkow.—Government-House— Town. Watering Place.—
Alcade.—Vegetation.—Arabic . . # ' 213
A p p e n d i x .—Zoology^Botany, Translations, &c. . / . 221
L IS T OF PLA T E S.
P l a t e . I.—Costume of Madeira. The figure on the left, is one of the Franciscan
friars, going to beg provision for his convent. The peasant nearest to him
bears a full wine-skin on his shoulders, and the other, in front, is coming with his fowls
and basket of fruit to the market. The woman who is advancing, is carrying flour
and bananas, and the one who is returning, carries dried fish, and a bundle of flax for
spihning. The garden in the-back-ground shews the method of training ¡the vines,
and contains an American Aloe, a small Dragon-tree, and Banana-trees.
P l a t e II—The Aqueduct of Lisbon, with the hills on each side of it, and the
orange gardens beneath.
P l a t e III.—Geological sections. A, the first section, is to the westward of the
Pontinha, or Loo bridge, and the strata lie as follows, beginning at the top; columnar
basalt, red-tufa, scoriae, yellow tufa, scoriae, and yellow tufa intersected by two bands
of pumice. The figure in this, as in all the other plates, bears an exact proportion to
the sketch. B is also to the west of the-Pontinha, and shews the basaltic caverns
near the sea. C is to the east of the Pontinha, and only differs by having a layer
of hackly basalt, between the two columnar strata* D is a distant view of Plate
VI., where the slip beneath the sea is more plainly seen, than in the nearer representation.
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P l a t e IV. A, the cliff seen from the road to Camera de Lobos. The church
steeple shews its proportion. B, an outline>1of the principal peaks of thé .island,
taken from the summit of the Pico da Cruz, and.shewing the ravine of the Jardin de
Serra, in which is situated the country house of,Mr. Veitch.
P late V Coural das Freiras, or the immense valley which traverses the island
of Madeira.
P l a t e VI.__Brazen head or Garajao. The white ridges in the layer of scoriæ
are incrustations of salt, imbibed from the marine atmosphere. One of the curious
basaltic dykes, so frequent in Madeira, is seen to the right of the peasant,
' P l a t e VII. A, hills of Porto Santo. B, sand formation in the same island.
P l a t e VIII.—Nearer views of the principal peaks.
P l a t e IX. Costuma of the Gambia. The figure dressed in blue is an Alcade,
or Governor of a town, the woman with a parasol is a Senhara, or Mulatto. The
figures passing at the back are, a travelling Moor with his bow and quiver, and his
wife and child.
P l a t e X.—A side view of the town of Bathurst.
P l a t e XI.—The Moorish town of Bakkow.
Fig. 1. The Lepidopus, or Hake of the Tagus.
,, 2. Crab, or new species of Planes, a, the upper, b, the under view.
” 3/C ) Fossil shells' found at Almada. « 4.S
,, 5. Sertularia and Aviculæ of Madeira.
„ 6. a, The Halosydna or Caraccas of Madeira, b, one valve of the operculum.
7g .?y Fossil Turritellæ of Almada.
,, 9. Beak of Goniaphea.
,, 10. a and b,}
„ 11. > Helices of Madeira.
„ 12 . a and 6,)
” _1 3.. ")> Helices of Porto Santo, found in the sand formation. « 14.J
,, 15. Bulimus do.
„ 16. Helix of Porto Santo.
,, 17. Helix subplicata of do.
18 1 ” jg | Venuses found at Porto Santo.
„ 20. Pecten do.