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.ÀTOMmX'TOO -lille. SECK) vlVC IM A N ’I A JSTA:\ \ C a n i b a / ’s . The li 0 (rTJE o f M ? M r a c .O IfAMC , fjv in Pis am a on the R iver Gambia, to S ill a , on ¿he River I olii) a/>/• Nig'cr ; With his return by’ the Southern Ponte , to P is a n ia . Compiled. from MV Park’s Observations, Notes, k Sketches, Jiy J .R e im e ll. ■ffijm7ph te?W..m ' /f~ Jin/M Mthi T R A V E L S IN T H E I N T E R I O R OF A F R I C A . CHAPTER, is The Author’s Motives fo r undertaking the Voyage— his lnstruc-. tions and Departure— arrives at Jillifree, on the Gambia River —proceeds to Vintain.— Some Account o f the Feloops.— Proceeds up the River fo r Jonkakonda— arrives at D r . Laidley’s.— Some Account of Pisania, and the British Factory established at that Place.— The Authors Employment during his Stay at Pisania— his Sickness and Recovery— the Country described—prepares to set out for the Interior. S oon after my return from the East Indies in 1793, having learnt that the Noblemen and Gentlemen, associated for the purpose of prosecuting Discoveries in the Interior of Africa, were desirous of engaging a person to explore that continent, by the way of the Gambia river, I took occasion, through means of the President of the Royal Society, to whom I had the honour to be known, of offering myself for that service. I had been informed, that a gentleman of the name of Houghton, a B


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