saugnier's voyage. 
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In the year 1753, Adanson began to think of 
returning to France. He made, however, a final 
journey to Podor, in which nothing remarkable 
occurred. On his return to the coast he was 
attacked by a dangerous fever, from which he 
fortunately recovered, and set sail from the road 
of Senegal on the 6th September 1753. 
In 1783, a Frenchman of the name of Saugnier 
set out on a commercial adventure to the coast of 
Africa. He does not appear to have departed in 
the best humour, having quarrelled with all his 
relations, and been reduced to a state of extreme 
indigence. His views were not cheered by the 
occurrences of the voyage, in the coiu^se of which 
he was shipwrecked on the coast of the Sahara, 
and detained for several years as a captive. The 
scenes through which he then passed, will be 
noticed when we come to treat of that part of 
Africa. He was ransomed, and returned to 
France. But pecuniary distress still pressing 
upon him, he found no resource but in following 
up his original intention, and embarked for the 
Senegal. He arrived at the mouth of the river 
on the 13th June 1785. He passed the bar amid 
the same peril and terror which Adanson had 
experienced, and landed on the isle of Senegal. 
He inveighs bitterly against preceding travellers, 
who had described this region as almost a para- 
