Their Flora, however, offers no special character, and does not materially differ from that of Guinea and Senegambia. |
Lower Senegambia includes the sections bordering on the Gambia. |
The vegetation of Senegambia is very luxuriant and vigorous. |
And while most slave exports from Senegambia were male Bambara from inland areas, slaves captured in the immediate area of Dakar included as many females as males. |
In the heat of its climate Senegambia ranks with Egypt and Nubia. |
Thus the brand-new caravel which took Cadamosto to Senegambia in 1455 was a vessel of some fifty-four tons capacity. |