of the Senegal
and Gambia, by G. Mollien. Lond. 1820, 4to.

Mollien was one of the shipwrecked in the Medusa, and who got to the
shores of the desert in the boats.--_Trans._

NOTE D, p. 110.

The kingdom of Kajaaga, in which I was now arrived, is called by the
French Gallam; but the name that I have adopted is universally used by
the natives.--Park's Travels, c. v. p. 1.

NOTE E, p. 111.

About eight o'clock, we passed a large town called Kabba, situated in
the midst of a beautiful and highly cultivated country; bearing a
greater resemblance to the centre of England, than what I should have
supposed had been the middle of Africa. The people were everywhere
employed in collecting the fruit of the Shea-trees, from which they
prepare the vegetable butter, mentioned in a former part of this work.
These trees grow in great abundance all over this part of Bambaraa. They
are not planted by the natives, but are found growing naturally in the
woods; and, in clearing wood-land for cultivation, every tree is cut
down but the Shea. The tree itself very much resembles the American oak;
and the fruit, from the kernel of which, being first dried in the sun,
the butter is prepared by boiling the kernel in water, has somewhat the
appearance of a Spanish olive. The kernel is enveloped in a sweet pulp,
under a thin green rind; and the butter produced from it, besides the
advantage of its keeping the whole year without salt; is whiter, firmer,
and, to my palate, of a richer flavour, than the best butter I ever
tasted made from cows' milk. The growth and preparation of this
commodity seem to be among the first objects of African industry in this
and the neighbouring states; and it constitutes a main article of their
inland commerce.--Park's Travels, pp. 202, 203.

II.

NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY OF M. DE BRISSON
IN THE DESERTS OF AFRICA,
IN THE YEAR 1785.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.

After making several voyages to Africa, which had been attended with
much difficulty, trouble and loss, I received orders, in the month of
June 1785, from Mons. le Marechal de Castries, Minister and Secretary of
the Marine Department, to embark for the island of St Louis, in Senegal,
in the Ship St Catherine, Captain le Turc commander, the same officer
who gained so great a character last war, when commander of the
Flessinguois.

Having examined all the coasts from France to the Canary Islands, on the
10th of July following, we pa