The date, comprising not only the year and month but day and hour, is in three lines in the centre.
Many Gambia stamps can also be found postmarked "Freetown, Sierra Leone," or "Registered, Sierra Leone," but as we have no record of Gambia stamps being used to defray postage from Sierra Leone, we must conclude that they were sent on by a steamer which did not possess a post office, and cancelled at Sierra Leone before being shipped on the mail steamer.
Stamps of Gambia can also occasionally be found with the postmark of the French Colony of Senegambia.
