4 
TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
soldiers and civilians, amounting to 100 indivi- 
duals, and a train of 200 animals. We called at 
Goree, where we remained until the S6th, when 
being joined by a vessel from the Cape de 
Verde Islands, having on board some horses and 
mules for our use, we proceeded and arrived, ' 
after a tedious passage of sixteen days, at Ka- 
kundy, a factory belonging to a Mr. Pearce, on 
the left bank of the Rio Nunez. 
While waiting for the tide at the mouth of 
that river, we visited a small island formed by 
the alluvial matter brought down with the 
stream, and collected by a ridge of rocks which 
run nearly across its embouchure. It is called 
Sandy Island, from its soil being almost wholly 
composed of that substance. It is about a mile 
in length, and from a quarter to half a mile in 
breadth, having a gentle rise towards the centre, 
where it is covered by a grove of palm trees. 
We met on it a party of about twenty of the 
Bagoo tribe, who had come thither to collect 
palm wine, for the celebration of a mournful ce- 
remony over one of their chiefs, who had died 
a short time before. At a little distance from 
the spot where we met them, there is an ar- 
bour, on approaching which we were stopped, 
and told the place was sacred, as it contained 
their idols ; of those we could not obtain even 
an indistinct view. 
