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178 TRAVELS IN AFRICA:the island i8 smooth water of four fathoms depth at high tide.Bere'were now twelve vessels lying at anclior, aU ofsmall draught, and mostlyto receive cargoes ofmules for the West India Islands.The Island in front is of several acres e.;tent, and the shore aroundthe bay is composed ofa fine white sand.A good opportunity, which·was availed of, now presented itself of taking a chart of this .place,which was accordingly done, with the due bearings and soundings, andleft in the possession of the hospitable merchants of this"place, Messrs,!Gwynne and Hutchinson, for insertion in the newmap< ofthii;coast then:about to be engraved. The watering..place j'sat the bottom of the'bay; a smallriver, neaf to which is a battery, and also a tr~ethe seafaring people as a land-mark.usedhyVessels which have overrun thisport from the north during summer, even ~ few leagues, have been forthree weeks beating up before they could recover it.bay was chosen by theHow dais littleSuhan in preference to Waladia, further.north, and which by aH accotmts possesses admifablea~vantages, cau..not he ascertained. But hither he removed the Europeans when hedismantled their original station, Santa Cruz, ifl the south.Imme{liate ta the beach here, on the north, are the town-gate al}dlanding-place. The landing from boats i8 fleither pleasant nor safe. 'fheJews here have the dutY imposed on them (and it is Dot' easy tt:)see how they could he dispensed with) of conveying Christians througbthe surf; a burthen it would be an indignity to impose ou the shoufdersof a :Mussulman.1'vloGODOR (April 1184).-The first idea which strikes a stmngers;mind Imre is the cleanljness that prevaiIs around,fmrn the white-washedhouses and white clothing of the people.On entering these bouses"indeed, some falling off is perceivable in this..respect i yet where thereligion of astate rnakes this virtue of the second cIass an article (i)f