CHAPTER XI. 



THE GAMBIA. 



" He that would wash the black off the negro, wastes both his 

 time aud the soap." 



Cape de Verde. —The Gambia. — Bathurst. — The Psalm of St. 

 Mary's Isle. — The tribes of the Seiie-Gambia. — Tropical Africa. 

 — The faith of El Islam. — The negro and his character, — Witch- 

 craft and native superstitions. — The red water ordeal. — Secret 

 associations. — The bush. — The voyage continued. 



On the 6th January, at sunrise, Africa was in 

 sight, and at 9 a.m. we could plainly distinguish 

 the Paps of Cape de Verde, two hills, on one of 

 which the French have erected a light-house. The 

 whole line of a low sandy-looking coast now lay 

 on our port bow, and shortly afterwards we passed 

 within a mile of the Madeline rocks, and the 

 French settlement of Goree, arriving at the mouth 

 of the Gambler at 10 p.m., where we anchored in 

 seven fatlioms. 



