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within the country. When this method appeared 
too tedious to rouse attention, he proposed at 
once, that the whole should be conquered, and 
held in subjection ; an undertaking for which he 
judged twelve hundred troops to be sufficient, 
AH these plans and representations failed of mak- 
ing any impression in the quarter to which they 
were addressed ; and Gallam continued still to 
be the farthest limit of French estabhshment in 
the interior of Africa, 
The governors of the Senegal, however, never 
lost sight of Bambouk, the penetrating into which 
formed, they were sensible, the only means by 
which their settlement could be raised to the rank 
of a first-rate colony. In 1730, 1731, and 173^, 
it was visited by Messrs Levens, Pelays, and 
Legrand ; the former of whom was then gover- 
nor of Senegal. In 1744^ M, David, who also 
held that office, spent a few days in surveying 
some of its most interesting districts. He had 
succeeded in making himself beloved by all the 
chiefs of the country, so that, had not the falling 
of the waters of the Senegal obliged him to lose 
no time in returning, he could have acquired a 
thorough knowledge of every part of it. M. 
Golberry obtained access to his notes, as well as 
to those of the three other gentlemen before men- 
tioned. He made diligent inquiry also from the 
natives, as well as from the English traders on the 
