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From Dog Island we bent to the east and passed the Jilifri or Grilofre village, in the Badibu country, a place well known during the days of Park. Then bending south-east, after a total of four hours, covering seventeen to eighteen knots, we landed upon James Island, the site of Fort James. The scrap of ground has a history.
Bathurst was unknown in the days of Mungo Park, when traders ran up stream to Jilifri, nearly opposite Fort James, and to Pisania, the end of river-navigation. St. Mary's Island, together with British Combo, Albreda, and the land called the 'Ceded, or 'English Mile, were bought from the Mandenga chief of the Combo province. First christened St.
In other parts of the Gambia valley eight subordinate comptoirs, including Jilifri or Gilofre, traded for hides and bees'-wax, ivory, slaves, and gold. After the African Company was abolished it passed over to the Crown, and the station was transferred to its graveyard, Sainte-Marie de Bathurst. Printed in Churchill's Collection. It was the head-centre of trade and its principal defence.
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