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APPENDIX. 
inhabitants of Goree, who, not finding eraploy-^ 
ment under the French Government there, and 
being excluded from the trade of the Gambia, 
except through the medium of Saint Mary's, or a 
small factory belonging to the French at Albreda 
(than which they are not allowed to go higher 
up the river) are daily emigrating to Bathurst. 
The troops, inhabitants, and merchants are 
abundantly supplied with, beef, mutton, poultry, 
fish, fruit, milk, butter, palm-wine, and all the 
African vegetables by the natives of the sur- 
rounding towns, who, feeling the advantage of 
such intimacy with the settlement, flock to it 
in great numbers, and consume a large propor- 
tion of the European articles imported into the 
colony. 
Gold, ivory, bees-wax, and hides are brought 
thither in considerable quantities by the natives,, 
traders, and the inhabitants of Goree who have 
settled there, and are annually shipped for Eng- 
land by the British merchants ; fine timber of the 
mahogany kind has been found on the banks of, 
and islands in the river, and has likewise been 
sent to the home market, where, I believe, it has 
met with some encouragement. 
