for catching fish, and for transporting themselves up or down the river. The negroes of this country are the most expert swimmers in the world, as I can vouch from frequent experience of their dexterity. [1] Cada Mosto is incorrect in the chronology of this discovery, and even de Barros is not quite decided as to the first discovery of the Senegal. He says that Denis Fernandez _passed_ it in 1446, and that Lancerot _discovered_ it in 1447; the latter of which is eight years before the visit of Cada Mosto.--Clarke. [2] The northern mouth of the Senegal is in lat. 16° 40'. The southern in 15° 45', both N. so that the distance between them, or the length of the island mentioned in the text, is about sixty-two miles.--E. [3] This fancy of all the great rivers in Africa being branches from one principal stream, is now known to be entirely erroneous.--Astl. [4] Although the first kingdom, or kingdoms of the Negroes lies on the Senegal, Senega, or Sanaghas, and others along the Gambia, yet there were not properly any kingdoms of these names. On the north, indeed, of the Sanagha, lay the country of the Sanhaga, Azanaghi, or Azanhaji, from whence the river seems to have taken its name; but was divided among various tribes of people, and not under any one sovereign. Geographers, however, have since continued to propagate this first error.--Astl. The Jalofs and Foulahs inhabit the country between the Senegal and Gambia, on which latter river the Feloops reside. What is meant by _Tukhusor_ in the text does not appear, unless it may obscurely indicate Karta.--E. SECTION V. _Continuation of the Voyage to the country of a King named Budomel, with some account of his Territory, and the Manners of his People_.