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Niausahmay Tambacoura, Netteco, Nai/e^ avd at Tomane 
Niacanet. Since then new discoveries have been made, and 
those of tîje two milieu of Kelimani and Natacou, are supposed 
to be the richest in the whole kingdom I 
Several projects have been presented for forming establish- 
ments in this kingdom, bntto me none of them appear feasible. 
One person has proposed the conquest of this vast countr}', and 
has only demanded for that purpose 1200 men; without reflecting 
that the most numerous army, even supposmgthat it were to ar- 
rive on the spot, and experience no resistance on the part of the 
natives, which is not likely, would be destroyed in a short time by 
the privations it would undergo, and the heat of the climate. 
Another project was, to buiid a movable fort of wood, in order^ 
under the protection of such machinery, to examine the mines, 
J consider both these projects as illusory dreams, because they 
are impracticable. I shall now state my own I think the most 
simple, least expensive, and the easiest of execution w^ould be, 
to establish, under modest pretensions, a factory at Galam, and to 
rebuild the forts of St. Joseph on the Senegal, and St. Peter on 
theFéiémé. Our intercourse is desired in these countries, and 
we should be received with open arms. Hence we might become 
the nmsters of their commerce and the whole of their gold mines^ 
and might afterwards arrive at Tombut, which is still farther, and 
by which we might complete the grand tour of the interior, which 
1 have already alluded to. 
I shasl now say a few words on the different hordes of Africa, 
and the relative advantages they derive from their conoectioo wulï 
the Europeans. 
All those countries are inhabited^ either by Moors or by mea 
whose complexion is of diiferent shades of blacky and were 
called Negroes. There is no race of men more perfidious and 
cruel than the Moors ; they do not not possess any of the virtues 
of the Arabs; they oppress the Negroes^ and consider the per- 
secution of strangers as a religious duty. 
The Negroes, on the contrary, are naturally good, humane, 
and hospitable. Those who inhabit the environs of the Senegal 
are large, muscular, and well-formed men; their countenance 
is noble; their feelings sensitive and grateful; and then- spirit is 
courageous and indefatigable. There are no domestics more 
attentive or capable of sincerer attachment; their activity and in- 
formation render them fit for all the arts and trades; but, as I 
have already said, they are not adapted for agricultural la- 
bours, their bodies not being accustomed to stoop. 
The women of these countries are generally handsome, gen- 
tle, modest, tender, and faithful ; they have in their looks a cer- 
tain degree of innocence, and in their language a timidity which 
