DISCOVERIES OF THE FRENCH. 
dered, partly by his own crew, and partly by the 
chiefs of the neighbouring villages. He bitterly 
complains of the prohibition by the government of 
Senegal, against taking any violent steps with re- 
gard to those monarchs. Hence, though he had, 
at one time, eight princes in chains, he was obliged 
to release them, without deriving any benefit from 
so commanding a position. In a state of violent cha- 
grin he arrived at the colony, where it appears that 
he was generally considered as in a state of insa- 
nity. This insinuation he strenuously repels, yet 
admits, that he drove from him all the inhabitants, 
black or white, conceiving them alike destitute of 
faith or honesty. Soon after, finding his health 
impaired, he set sail for France. In the preface 
to his narrative, he submits a plan for penetrating 
into the interior of Africa ; first, along the Niger 
to Tombuctoo, and then across the continent, ei- 
ther to Abyssinia, or to Mozambique. It does 
not appear that the French government felt any 
such zeal as could induce them to close with this 
proposition. 
So far as can be judged from his narrative, Saug- 
nier appears to have been a man of enterprise 
and abilities, but of a violent, rash, and quarrel- 
some temper, which, by embroiling him with al- 
most all who came into contact with him, finally 
rendered his schemes abortive. 
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