brue's first voyage. 
announce his arrival. In sailing up the Senegal, 
he was wonderfully struck with the beauty of the 
scenery on its banks. The rainy season having 
just terminated, the woods and meadows were 
clothed in the most luxuriant verdure. The 
forests resounded with the songs of innumerable 
birds, while the prodigious multitude of the va- 
rious monkey tribes, which leaped from branch 
to branch, presented a lively and amusing spec- 
tacle. The French passed several small islands 
formed by the waters of the Senegal, and which 
are entirely overflowed during the rainy season, 
but occupied and cultivated as soon as the waters 
have subsided. They came then to a much larger 
one, called Morfil, or the Isle of Ivory. It de- 
rives this name from the multitude of elephants 
by which it is peopled. These go in herds of 
forty or fifty, and are quite harmless as to the in- 
habitants, but often do serious injury to the plan- 
tations. The negroes take them by digging pits 
in the ground, which being covered with leaves 
and branches of trees, the elephants fall in, and 
are then easily killed with arrows. 
Near the western extremity of this island, on 
the north of the river, is a district called Terrier 
Rougey celebrated for the gum trade. This is 
carried on to a great extent with the Moors, who 
collect it from the forests on the borders of the 
Sahara. The meadows are rich, and covered 
