A voyage to Senegal : $b or, Historical, philosophical, and political memoirs, relative to the discoveries, establishments and commerce of Europeans in the Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Blanco to the river of Sierra LeoneDurand, Jean Baptiste Léonard
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A voyage to Senegal : $b or, Historical, philosophical, and political memoirs, relative to the discoveries, establishments and commerce of Europeans in the Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Blanco to the river of Sierra Leone
Durand, Jean Baptiste Léonard
Africa, Northwest; Senegal -- Description and travel
Cabo, remarks on the kingdom of, 70. — Cachaux, particulars of
the Portuguese colony of that name, its government, &c. 50. —
Cape, see _Cabo_. Cape Verd, its situation, directions to mariners
on approaching it, 26. — Casamanca, the, impediments to its
navigation, 49. — Casnabac, an island in the archipelago of
the Bissagos, 53. — Cayor, historical sketch of the country,
order of succession to the throne, 32. — Religion of the country,
33. — Superstition of the inhabitants, ibid. — Cazegut, account
of the isle, its fertility, &c. 54. — Dress and character of
the inhabitants, 56. Cereses, account of some singular tribes of
Negroes so called, 29. — Chastity, its relative value among
the Blacks, 105. — Chimpanzee, description of that animal,
92. — Circumcision, ceremonies attending the practice of, 93. —
Description of the performance of the operation, 165. — Cisterns,
account of two remarkable, in the isle of Arguin, 23. — Civet,
account of this animal, 154. — Costume of the sexes in Africa,
102. — Crocodiles, proof of the possibility of training them, 76.
Damel, dispute of that Negro king with M. Brue, 24. — Damel,
royal magnanimity of, to a vanquished enemy, 127. — Devoise,
M. his death, in consequence of cruel treatment, by the Moors,
18. — Diseases incident to the Moors, 136. — Durand, M. shipwreck
of, 177. — Duval, M. instance of his black perfidy and cruelty,
25. — Dwellings, manner of constructing them, their site, &c. 103.
Elephants, singular revenge of a, 77. — English, remarks on
their establishments on the Gambia, 43. — Their trade, 45. —
Their dispute with the king of Gereges, 46. — History of their
establishment in the isle of Bulam, 68.
Factories, English, account of those situated in Africa, 44. —
Fanaticism, revolutionary, disgraceful instance of French, 84. —
Felups, character of the, 42. — Articles of trade with them,
44. — Fertility of the soil in the vicinity of the Senegal,
127. — Fetiso, see _Hippopotamus_. — Fisheries, their
abundant produce on the coast near Portendick, 26. — Foigny,
short account of the kingdom of, 38. — Formosa, supposed to be
the residence of the gods of the Bissagos, 53. — Foulahs, the,
site of their country, remarks on the inhabitants, their manners,
&.c. 43. — Account of them, their religion, constitution, manners,
&c. 125. — Free-town, history of its establishment, 83. — French,
their establishments on the banks of the Gambia, 44.
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