Note 35 — Chapter I
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It has already been remarked (if an author may be permitted to quote himself) in the Réflexions sur l’état des connaissances relatives au cours du Dhiolibâ (page 23) that the catastrophe appears to have occurred about the 4th of January 1806. He set out from Sansanding about the 19th of November, his voyage therefore could only have lasted about forty seven days.