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will be continued to Cook's river along the ^o^«^' Jjf^^^^/fJ 

 north as possil»le. From Nootka Sound the vessel mU proceed 

 to the Sandwich Islands for pearls and sandal ^^'^^d' °;'^- Z";^ 

 circumnavigators will then proceed to Chma, and from thence 

 return to Bordeaux. 



FRENCH COLONIES. 



The French Government have sent out an expedition td Sene- 

 gal, with a view to re-colonize that once flourishmg settlement. 

 The French frigate La Meduse, which carried o"t ^he goyerno' 

 and settlers, was unfortunately wrecked, and about loO ind v.- 

 duals perished in a most dreadful manner from hunger, tlur , 

 drowning, insanitv, and mutual assassination, on a '"f »" J^^J^^ 

 they were abandoned for many days to the mercy ot the v\ave6. , 

 The following account is given in the French papers of the suc- 

 cess of the survivors : p^^.^^ 5^p^_ 22 



The latest intelligence from Senegal announces that not only 

 the boats of the French frigate Meduse had arrived at St. LouiS, 

 but that the governor and officers had even saved all their effects. 

 Part of the ship-wrecked mariners had followed along the coast, 

 and arrived without any accident, except M. Kummer the na- 

 turalist, and one of the delegates of the Phdanthrc.pic Colonial 

 Society. This traveller, having wandered away from h'* com- 

 panions to discover fresh water, found an abundant and hinpid 

 spring; but while he was drinking, he was taken P"^^«ne'- ^JY ^ 

 party of Traersas-Moors, to whom he called himself an officer 

 of high rank, which made them conduct him to the French fort, 

 mounted on a fine horse. The governor rewarded them hand- 

 somelv. All the instruments of agriculture sent by the Colon al 

 Socieiv were swallowed up in the waves. This is a heav) loss, 

 and will retard all attempts at cultivation for at least a year 



The delegates who are in the village ot Dacar have already 

 explored the peninsula of Cape Vcrd, where they hope to form 

 iheir first establishment. This peninsula is not very fertile, but 

 it has nevertheless all the resources necessary for forming a co- 

 lonv: it has land capable of being ploughed, salubrious water, 

 a temperate, climate, and good pasturage: it is separated from 

 the rest of the states of Damel, of wliuh it forms part, bv de- 

 files, where three or four hundred iuhal>itauts of the peninsula 

 lately arrested the progress of the whole army ot Darnel, ten 

 thousand men strong. This African prince ^^^'^ . ^-P^^^J ;« 

 cede a territory in which he exercises a most uncertain authoiity. 

 The delegates of the Colonial Society expect to come to an un- 

 derstandi^ig with the inhabitants. One of them, M. Parsen, has 

 drawn up a report on the subject, and transmitted it to France.^ 



