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The approaches to Senegal -- The balloon sinks lower and lower -- They keep throwing out, throwing out -- The Marabout al-Hadji -- Messrs. Pascal, Vincent, and Lambert -- A rival of Mohammed -- The difficult mountains -- Kennedy's weapons -- One of Joe's manoeuvres -- A halt over a forest.
On the 27th of May, at nine o'clock in the morning, the country presented an entirely different aspect. The slopes, extending far away, changed to hills that gave evidence of mountains soon to follow. They would have to cross the chain which separates the basin of the Niger from the basin of the Senegal, and determines the course of the watershed, whether to the Gulf of Guinea on the one hand, or to the bay of Cape Verde on the other.