This resolution having been formed, I made preparations accordingly.
And now, being about to take leave of my hospitable friend (whose
kindness and solicitude continued to the moment of my departure), and to
quit for many months the countries bordering on the Gambia, it seems
proper, before I proceed with my narrative, that I should in this place
give some account of the several negro nations which inhabit the banks of
this celebrated river, and the commercial intercourse that subsists
between them, and such of the nations of Europe as find their advantage
in trading to this part of Africa. The observations which have occurred
to me on both these subjects will be found in the following chapter.
And now, being about to take leave of my hospitable friend (whose
kindness and solicitude continued to the moment of my departure), and to
quit for many months the countries bordering on the Gambia, it seems
proper, before I proceed with my narrative, that I should in this place
give some account of the several negro nations which inhabit the banks of
this celebrated river, and the commercial intercourse that subsists
between them, and such of the nations of Europe as find their advantage
in trading to this part of Africa. The observations which have occurred
to me on both these subjects will be found in the following chapter.
