Senegal River relates the legend that both the Senegal and the Egyptian Nile were branches of the Biblical Gihon River that stems from the Garden of Eden and flows through Ethiopia. He also notes that the Senegal was called "the Niger" by the ancients - probably a reference to Ptolemy's legendary 'Nigir' (Νιγειρ) (below the Gir), which would be later identified by Leo Africanus with the modern Niger River. Much the same story is repeated by Marmol in 1573, with the additional note that both the Senegal River and Gambia River were tributaries of the Niger River. However, the contemporary African atlas
St. Louis Cathedral (Saint-Louis, Senegal) St. Louis Cathedral (Saint-Louis, Senegal) The St. Louis Cathedral () is an eighteenth-century cathedral located on the place d'armes in the southern district of Saint-Louis Island in the African country of Senegal. It is the oldest church in West Africa. St. Louis Christians did not have a real church for many years. They gathered in several places within the fort, in the military hospital or individuals, such as John Thevenot houses, who was mayor from 1765 to 1778. British occupiers even got to prohibit the presence of the priests and all expression religious. The recovery of the colony by the