' TRAVELS 
IN THE 
INTERIOR OF AFRICA. 
CHAPTER I. 
77?^ Authors Motives for undertaking the Voyage — his Instruc- 
tions and Departure — arrives at Jillifree, on the Gambia River 
— proceeds to Vintain. — Some Account of the Feloops. — Proceeds 
up the River for Jonkakonda — arrives at Dr. Laidley's. — Some 
Account of Pisania, and the British Factory established at that 
Place. — The Author s Employment during his Stay at Pisania — 
his Sickness and Recovery — the Country described — prepares to 
set out for the hiterior. 
Soon after my return from the East Indies in 1793, having 
learnt that the Noblemen and Gentlemen, associated for the 
purpose of prosecuting Discoveries in the Interior of Africa, 
were desirous of engaging a person to explore that continent, 
by the way of the Gambia river, I took occasion, through means 
of the President of the Royal Society, to whom I had the 
honour to be known, of offering myself for that service. I had 
been informed, that a gentleman of the name of Houghton, a 
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