Part 22

All the crew were saved; but most of them had taken another direction: my cook and boy lost themselves, and three days elapsed before they found me.

About noon the lady of the mansion sent to know if I would take some tea: I begged to be served with it in my apartment, but she insisted that I should come down stairs, and take it with her. I had much difficulty to bring myself to accept this compliment, as I was still in a most deplorable condition, and not fit to be seen. About five in the afternoon the gentleman returned, with several of his neighbours, and some of the crew. They had saved very few things from the wreck; but they restored to me a bag with about 500 dollars, and a box containing my papers, which I got dried in the oven. My boy John also saved a sack with nearly 1200 livres; a packet of virgin gold, from Senegal, which I sold in London for about 100 guineas; an ape, a yellow parroquet, and some ostriches’ eggs. The loss, however, which I sustained by this wreck I shall ever regret, on account of the useful knowledge which it has prevented me from communicating to my country. I lost a choice assortment of plants, unknown in Europe; several bottles of distilled palm wine; some water taken from the Senegal, at Isle St. Louis and Podor; several tons of the earth from the gold mines at Galam and Bambouk; a collection of the scarcest reptiles, birds, and fishes; and drawings of the costumes, arms, equipages, &c. of all the hordes in this part of Africa.

At six o’clock we sat down to an excellent dinner, and remained a long time at table. The repast terminated in the English manner; that is, we swallowed bumpers of wine till we were all drunk. The next day our host conducted me to Carmarthen, where I purchased a new wardrobe, and equipped myself from head to foot.

This day we received an express from the merchants of London; who, having heard of our shipwreck, sent to offer us their services. We were grateful for their attention; but situated as we were, we could only thank them, and answer that we wanted for nothing. I shall always regret that I lost the letter from those obliging merchants, whom we afterwards saw at London, where they treated us in a magnificent style. I should have had the greatest pleasure in making known to my countrymen the names of those liberal gentlemen, so respectable for their humanity, and the nobleness of their sentiments; but being deprived of the means, I must content myself with speaking of their countryman, whose care saved me from misery and death.

The name of this generous Englishman was Henry Trollope; he was a native of Norwich; was then 36 years of age, and was a captain in the navy. His lady, who was handsome, modest, and of the gentlest disposition, was a native of London, whose maiden name was Fanny Best. She was then about 22 years old. They had no children; a circumstance which they felt severely, as they were both very anxious to have a young family. I hope, for the happiness of themselves and the human race, that their wishes have been fulfilled. Mrs. Trollope, when a girl, had been educated at Brussels, so that she, as well as her husband, spoke French sufficiently well to be understood. I must here add, that the attachment of this amiable woman towards her husband, had induced her to accompany him in all his voyages.

They inhabited Westmead castle, about three miles from Laugharn, in Wales, the place of our shipwreck. It stands in a delightful situation, is well built, and its architecture possesses a noble simplicity. Its internal arrangements are well adapted; the park is large and well planted, and the gardens are judiciously laid out. At the time I was wrecked Captain Trollope had taken a lease of it from Lord Montalt, of which three years had expired.

During my stay at the castle, the liberal inhabitants incessantly endeavoured to dispel from our minds the remembrance of our misfortune; and every day was distinguished by some new festivity: hunting, fishing, gaming, and feasting, succeeded each other without interruption; and the only care seemed to be how fresh pleasure could be procured. O! Mrs. Trollope, worthy and affectionate wife of the most humane of men, I feel the most lively emotion in thus bearing testimony to the gratitude which I owe you, and which will never be effaced from my heart.

On the 24th of September, in the afternoon, Captain Trollope proposed to me a hunting party; but I preferred keeping company with his wife, and he left me alone with her. We were walking in the park, when we observed at a distance a huntsman riding at full gallop; he passed by us without saying any thing, and without stopping at the castle.

Mrs. Trollope was alarmed, and said to me, “some accident has happened to my husband.” We soon learned that his horse had fallen and rolled on him, by which he was dangerously hurt; and the messenger who passed us, was riding to fetch a surgeon. It is impossible to describe the distraction of the lady, and our own consternation, when we saw Captain Trollope brought home upon a litter: he was taken to his chamber, followed by his wife, who made the most pitiable lamentations; he, however, turned towards her, and said, with much unconcern, “Fanny, be quiet, wipe away your tears, and cease crying.”

On the arrival of the surgeon, our fears were dispelled, as he assured us that the accident would not be attended with any bad consequences. In short, by proper medical attention, the captain was in a few days restored, and we were enabled to resume our ordinary exercises and amusements.

After passing eighteen days in this delightful abode, without being suffered to incur the least expence, we embarked for Bristol, at the very place of our shipwreck. Our separation cost tears on both sides. I left my ape with Mrs. Trollope, together with whatever I had saved from the wreck, that was worth her acceptance. My parroquet was unique of its kind; it spoke well, and was the only one of a yellow colour that I ever saw even at Senegal, where I obtained it. It came to a miserable end, having been caught and devoured by the cats. Mrs. Trollope was inconsolable at the event, and spoke of it every day.

The generous Captain was not satisfied with the kind reception that he had given us in his mansion, but wished to serve us after our separation. He therefore gave us letters of recommendation to Bristol, Bath, and London; in consequence of which we were every where received with the highest respect.

END OF DURAND’S VOYAGE

INDEX

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AFRICA, general remarks on its inhabitants, 87. — Laws of the different tribes, 96, 173. — Africans, remarks on the religion and manners of the, 93 — The appointment of their kings, 95. — Almamy Abdulkader, war between him, Alikouri, and Damel, 126. — Ambergrease, discovery of a remarkable lump of that substance found at Goree, 28. — Animals, short account of the principal, on the right bank of the Senegal, &c. 127, 154. — Ants, remarkable account of, 48. — Apes, white, the most beautiful animals in the world, 160. — Arabic, immense extent where that language is spoken, 138. — Arabs, their character, manner of living, trade, &c. 139. — Arguin, isle of, historical sketch of that Dutch settlement, 23. — Arnaud, his revolutionary fanaticism in destroying Free-town, 84. — Azounas, see _Arabs_.

Bagnous, sketch of their character, 47. — Baking, singular method of, practised by the Moors, 15. — Balantes, character and customs of those Negroes, 57. — Expedition of the Portuguese against it, 58. — Caution requisite in trading with them, ib. — Bambouk, account of the kingdom of, richness of its gold-mines, &c. 170. — Banions, see _Bagnions_. — Baol, extent of the kingdom of, 35. — Barra, interesting account of the kingdom of, 38. — His authority, revenues, &c. 40. — Bats, curious account of them in some parts of Africa, 47. — Beaver, captain, his laudable conduct as governor of the isle of Bulam, 70. — Beauty, Moorish ideas of, 132. — Biafares, their expulsion from the island of Bulam, by the Bissagos, 67. — Bintan, present state of the village, the residence of the emperor of Foigny, 46. — Population of the Portuguese there, ib. — Bird, description of a curious sort at Goree, 29. — Bissagos, archipelago of the, first discovered by the French, its site, number, government, &c. 53. — Its formation, 70. — Character of the natives, 53. — Their war with the Biafares, 67. — Bissaux, the isle of, its discovery, establishments, productions, &c. 60. — Religion, manners, and customs of the inhabitants, 62. — Their mode of warfare, 64. — Account of the order of succession, 65. — Bizaur Mansare, character of the Negro king, 71. — Blaiks, their general character, 99. — Much addicted to superstitious practices, 107. — Boat, indifference of the inhabitants to the crocodile, 76. — Bondou, arrival in the kingdom of, &c. 161. — Boufflers, M. account of his interview with Damel at Senegal, 33. — Bourba, an amphibious animal, account of the, 31. — Brack, king, interview with him described, 123. — Bread-fruit tree in Africa, account of the, 90. — Brisson, M. de, account of his shipwreck on the coast of Africa, his treatment by the Moors, 11. — Is transferred to a new master, 19. — His dangerous encounter with two Moors, 20. — His arrival at Morocco, and interview with the emperor, 21. — His liberation, by order of the emperor of Morocco, departure for France 23. — Brue, M. account of his dispute with Damel, 34. — His reception on the isle of Cazegut, 54. — Buffoons, numerous among the Negroes, 150. — Bulam, description of the island of, its situation, extent, &c. 66. — Soil, productions, and trade, 68. — History of the English establishments formed there, ib. — Bumbalon, description of this curious contrivance for conveying orders, 63. — Bussi, remarks on the isle of, 56.

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.

Galam, general remarks on the voyage to, 169. — Diseases of the country, &c. 170. — Galline, sketch of the isle, 53. — Gambia, description of the river, its extent, navigation, &c. 36. — Its discovery by the Normans, 37 — Kingdoms on its banks, ibid. — History of its Establishments, 43. — Objects of trade on this part of the coast, 45. — Gereges, account of the different establishments formed in the village, 36. — Gesves, course and extent of the river, its commercial advantages, 72. — Goli, situation of the river, its trade, &c. 72. — Goree, remarks on the passage to it from Europe, as well as the Senegal, 26. Dutch origin of its name, 27. — Numerous contests respecting its possession, ibid. — Extent of its commerce, ibid. — Productions of the island, 30. — Goudnum, account of the town, its buildings, manufactures, and trade, 20. — Guenala, remarks on the kingdom of, and its inhabitants, 72. — Guiamala, description of the, 160. — Gum, account of the tree which produces it, importance of the trade with it, 139.

Hamet, Mocktar, entertainment given to him and his family, 141. — Hippopotamus, account of this singular animal, 77. — Method of hunting it, 79. — Hospitality, conduct of the Moors to those who abuse it, 135. — Hospitality, English, interesting instance of, 178. — Hundreders, account of the, 86.

Idoles, account of the islands of, 75. — Incense, its abundance in some parts of Africa, 157. — Interview with a Negro king described, 151. — Iron, the staple article in trade with the Africans, 120. — James, remarks on its inhabitants, their trade, &c. 49. Joukakonda, remarkable on account of the English factory there, 44. — Journey by land from isle St. Louis to Galam, reasons for the tour, &c. 145. — Distance of the route, 163.

Knavery, specimen of reciprocal, 141.

Lajaille, M. de, his dangerous situation owing to the treachery of the Bassantes, 59. — Lake, account of a singular, found on the isle of Goree, 28. — Locusts, their ravages, are eaten by the Africans, 122. — Los, its site, trade of this isle and its vicinity, 76. — Louis, St. description of the isle, its climate, soil, customs of the inhabitants, &c. 112 — 120.

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.

Salt, peculiar method of making it by the Mandingos, 40. — Singular species of, an antedote against poison, 74. — Salt-pits at Gandiolle, the, allotted for the dowry of the queen of Cayor, 31. — Salum, dominions of the king of, 35. — Salutation, curious method of, 54. — Sea-horse, see _Hippopotamus_. — Senegal, the, description of the bar of that river and its banks, 110. — Senegal river, its course, distinction between it and the Niger, 121. — Serays, see _Cereses_. — Serpents, indifference of the Negroes to them between Goree and Senegal, 30. — Sharp, Mr. G. his establishment of a colony at Sierra Leone, 83. — Sidi Carachi, account of his journey from isle St. Louis to Galam, 164. — Sierra Leone, the river of, its discovery, 81. — Account of the different establishments of Europeans in that quarter, 82. — Present state of the English colony, 86. — Productions of the banks of the river, 89. — Animal productions, 91. — Sin, sketch of the kingdom, 35. — Slave-trade, ingenious remarks on the, 109.

Tamara, site of the isle, and productions, 75. — Tin, king, his usurpation of the kingdom of Cayor, 149. — Travelling in Africa, the difficulties of, described, 14. — Trollope, captain, his generous treatment of some shipwrecked Frenchmen, 179.

Villages of the Negroes, description of the, 147, 153.

Wadelims, maimers, customs, &c. of the, 129. — Wedding, description of a Moorish, 130.

Yolof, account of a revolution in, 148. — Brief remarks on the character of, &c. 43, 122. — Youly, general remarks on the kingdom of, 157.

Zapes, account of the different hordes called, 74.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: The spirit and motives of M. Durand are throughout his work sufficiently evident: his object is to promote the ambitious views of his countrymen at the expence of every other nation. His account of Bulam is partial and unsatisfactory; but as he has mentioned the name of Captain Beaver, we will refer our readers for a full and interesting history of the establishment at Bulam, to a work which he lately published, intitled “_African Memoranda_, &c.”—ED.]

[Footnote 2: The author, doubtless, meant that he would cause these journies to be executed; for it does not appear that he had any intention of performing them himself.—ED.]

[Footnote 3: The places marked with an asterisk, were visited by Rubault and Sidi-Carachi, when they travelled together. Two asterisks indicate the place which Mungo Park passed through as well as our travellers.]

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