Mollien, Gaspard-Theodore. - Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Af - Lot 204

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Mollien, Gaspard-Theodore. - Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Af - Lot 204
Mollien, Gaspard-Theodore. - Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique aux sources du Sénégal et de la Gambie fait en 1818 par ordre du gouvernement français. Paris, Courcier, 1820. 2 vol. in-8, half calf with roots - Leather very worn - VIII, 357 pp. with folding map and 2 plates ; 319 pp 2 plates ht. Autograph signature of Mollien on the reverse of the title page. Gaspard Mollien, a simple clerk of the Navy, made one of the first penetration trips to Senegal, a colony that the Treaty of Paris (1814) had just restored to us. In 1818, the young Mollien, a survivor of the shipwreck of the Méduse, made a first foray down the Senegal River to Podor. The following year, the Fleuriau government entrusted him with a complex geographical and political mission: to discover the sources of the Senegal and Gambia rivers, to study the communications between these rivers, and to thwart the English attempts to penetrate the Gambia towards Boundou (Major Gray's voyage). Finally arriving on the Niger, Mollien will have to try to descend to its mouth. At the end of a difficult itinerary and constantly beset by the hostility of the natives, Mollien gave up trying to reach the Niger. Having passed not far from the source of the Falémé, he recognized that of the Bafing, one of the upper branches of the Senegal (January 26, 1818).
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