esume it, and in a few hours breathed his last.

"This was a sad commencement of the new year, and the melancholy event
cast a heavy gloom on the minds of every individual connected with the
expedition. It made so deep an impression on some, that it was with much
difficulty they could be prevailed on not to abandon the enterprise.
Never was a man more sincerely beloved, nor more truly regretted, by all
who knew him. His remains were deposited, amidst the heartfelt regrets
of his friends and companions, on the following day, in the court-yard
of Mr Beatman, under the shade of two orange-trees; and an appropriate
epitaph, written by Captain Campbell, and carved on a slab of native
mahogany, was placed on his grave." pp. 67.

NOTE C, p. 108.

When we had reached the other side of the river, they drew the piroque
on land. This is the only way that the people of the country have to
secure their little boats, which the surge would instantly fill, when
they cannot cast anchor at a sufficient distance from the shore.

This manoeuvre did not occupy a long time, and I bent my steps to the
village of Sor. I was kindly welcomed as usual; and I requested them to
point out to me the best place for hunting; for I had that day left my
interpreter, because I had gained a sufficient knowledge of the language
of the country to understand all that the negroes said to me, and to
make myself understood by them. They led me in a direction whence I had
seen a troop of antelopes scamper off; but I thought no more of the
chase after I had seen a tree, the enormous dimensions of which
completely rivetted my attention. It was a calabash tree, otherwise
called the monkey-bread tree, which the Woloffs call _goui_ in their
language. Its height was nothing extraordinary, being but about sixty
feet; but its trunk was of prodigious dimensions. I spanned it thirteen
times with my arms stretched out, but it was more; and, for greater
exactness, I at last measured it with twine, and found its circumference
to be sixty-five feet, its diameter consequently nearly twenty-two feet.
I believe there has never been any thing seen equal to it in any
country; and, I am persuaded that, had our ancient travellers known it,
they would not have failed to have included it among the wonders of the
world. It is also very astonishing that this tree has been totally
neglected by those who have given us the history of Senegal, especially
as there are but few common to t