[95] There is a portrait of Richard Lander in the possession of the
Royal Geographical Society, painted by W. Brockedon, F.R.S., and it was
engraved by C. Turner, A.R.A.
[96] The Niger, so Herodotus heard, flowed from the west
_eastward_--ἀπὼ ἑσπέρης πρὸς ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα [Greek: apô hesperês
pros hêlion anatellonta].
Pliny first uses the word Niger or Nigris. He seems to have thought
that the _Niger_ and Nile were somehow united; and Claudian seems to
have fallen into the same mistake:
'Gèr notissimus amnis
Æthiopum, simili mentitus gurgite Nilum.'
The French have a notion that the Senegal and the Niger may be
connected by a cutting, by which means Timbuctoo might be conveniently
approached, and trade opened up with the interior of Africa.
[97] On account of his short stature he was generally called by the
natives in Africa 'Nasarah Curramee,' or Little Christian.
[98] Cowries are small shells, the medium of exchange with the natives:
their present value is about one shilling per thousand.
[99] The 2nd of February is the date given by S. Tissington as that
which was on the monument erected to Lander's memory in the Savoy
Chapel by his widow and child.
[100] Baikie's 'Niger,' 1854.
[101] Namely, in 1832.
_THE REV. HENRY MARTYN, B.D._,