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
Mahometans of Senegal, sketch of the tenets of their religion,
166. — Maldonado, Don Juan, description of his settlement near
Pasqua, 48. — Mandingos, the, origin of the name, manners,
customs, government, &c. 38. — Their religion, 39. — Their
method of manufacturing salt, 40. — Dress of both sexes, ib. —
Population 41. — Marabous of Armancour, remarks respecting the,
141. — Maroons, their laudable conduct at Sierra Leone, 86. —
Marriage, ceremonies attending it at isle St. Louis, 117. — Merine,
sketch of the kingdom, its productions, &c. 159. — Micheiry,
account of the tree of that name, 67. — Magador, arrival of the
captives at, remarks on the town, 21. — Moors, their barbarous and
cruel character on the coast of Africa, 10. — Specimen of their
cupidity, 11. — Instance of their pusillanimity, 14. — Insulting
manners of the women, 18. — Treatment of their European slaves,
ibid — Their dreadful retaliation of French perfidy and cruelty,
25. — Account of the different tribes on the right bank of the
Senegal, 129. — Specimen of their pride and ignorance, 132. —
Their trade, manufactures, agriculture, provisions, &c. 133. —
Manner of conducting warfare, 134. — Costume, 136. — Religion,
138. — Moors and Negroes, comparison between the, 173. — Morocco,
sketch of the city of, 21. — Remarks on the inhabitants, 22. —
Morocco, the emperor of, his ridiculous pretensions to learning,
&c. 21. — Musk, process for obtaining it, 154.
Negroes, their natural aversion to labour, 88. — Negroes, free,
contrasted with slaves, 99. — Negroes and Moors, comparison drawn
between the, 173. — Generosity of the former, 175. — Normans,
the first discoverers of the coast of Africa near the Gambia, 37.
Ordeal, mode of trial in Africa by, 106. — Ormond, his success in
commerce on the river of Sierra Leone, and tragical end, 81. —
Ounce, employment of that animal by the Persians for hunting,
155. — Oyster-shells, remarks relative to an inexhaustible quarry
of, 112.
Palm-wine, manner of obtaining it, its effect upon the constitution,
167. — Parroquet, account of a newly discovered species of,
128. — Pasqua, view of the country surrounding the village, its
productions, &c. 47. — Phenomenon, singular in the isle of Bissaux,
65. — Piracy, French, disgraceful account of, 55. — Pisania,
description of the English factory, commerce, &c. 44. — Portendick,
description of the bays of, its former commercial establishment,
24. — Struggles between the Dutch and French for its possession,
ib. — Its produce and trade, 26. — Portuguese in Africa,
general remarks on the, 41. — On their manners and commerce,
51. — Purrah, account of the institution so called, 97.
Rio-Grande, trade carried on by way of the, 73. — Royalty,
singular order of succession to, 65. — Rubault, his departure
from Isle St. Louis, to travel by land to Galam, 146. — Success
of his journey to Galam, 168. — Account of his murder, 169.
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