ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the operation of tattooing, and gives some account of the boa constrictor and the termites. The mighty and mysterious river of Africa, the Neel el Abeede of the Arabs, the Joli Ba of the Mandingoes, the Niger of the Europeans, rushed into the author's mind; and danger and fatigue were no longer objects of consideration. The island of St. Louis, the metropolis of the French in Africa, is situated about eighteen miles within the bar of the Senegal, and nine above the mouth of the river. Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, only remained to complete the Tour of Africa. The fig, the olive, the date-tree and the vine, yield good fruit; the melons are delicious, and the long, slender sheep, which find scarcely any thing to eat, furnish excellent mutton.
