An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa | Page 6

of Plague. 180
Observations respecting the Plague that prevailed last Year in West
Barbary, which was imported from Egypt; communicated by the
Author to the Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science, and

the Arts, edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, No. 15,
published October, 1819. 186
Journey from Tangier to Rabat, through the Plains of Seboo, in
Company with Doctor Bell and the Prince Muley Teib and an Army of
Cavalry. 191
Officiated as Interpreter between the Prince and Dr. Bell.--Description
of Food sent to us by the Prince.--The Plains of M'sharrah Rummellah,
an incomparably fine and productive Country.--The Cavalry of the
Amorites;--their unique Observations on Dr. Bell: their mean opinion
of his Art, because he could not cure Death.--Passage of the River
Seboo on Rafts of inflated Skins.--Spacious tent of Goat's Hair erected
for the Sheik, and appropriated to the Use of the Prince.--Description of
the magnificent Plains of M'sharrah Rummellah and Seboo.--Arabian
Royalty.--Prodigious Quantity of Corn grown in these
Plains.--Matamores, what they are.--Mode of Reaping.--
The Prince presents the Doctor with a Horse, and approves of his
Medicines.--The Prince and the Doctor depart south-eastwardly, and
the Author pursues his Journey to Rabat and Mogodor. 191
Of the excavated Residences of the Inhabitants of Atlas: the Acephali,
Hel Shoual, and Hel el Kitteb. 198
The Discovery of Africa not to be effected by the present System of
solitary Travellers; but by a grand Plan, with a numerous Company;
beginning with Commerce, as the natural Prelude to Discovery, the
Fore-runner of Civilization, and a preliminary Step, indispensable to
the Conversion of the native Negroes to Christianity.
Cautions to be used in Travelling. 202
Danger of Travelling after Sun-set.--The Emperor holds himself
accountable for Thefts committed on Travellers, whilst travelling
between the rising and the setting Sun.--Emigration of
Arabs.--Patriarchal Style of Living among the Arabs; Food, Clothing,
domestic Looms, and Manufactures.--Riches of the Arabs calculated by

the Number of Camels they possess.--Arabian Women are good
Figures, and have personal Beauty; delicate in their Food; poetical
Geniuses; Dancing and Amusements; Musical Instruments; their
Manners are courteous.
Abundance of Corn produced in West Barbary. 208
Costly Presents made by Spain to the Emperor.--Bashaw of Duquella's
Weekly Present of a Bar of Gold.--Mitferes or Subterranneous
Depositaries for Corn.
Domestic Serpents of Marocco 213
Manufactures of Fas. 214
Superior Manufactory of Gold Thread.--Imitation of precious
Stones.--Manufactory of Gun-barrels in Suse.--Silver-mine.
On the State of Slavery in Muhamedan Africa. 219
The Plague of Locusts. 221
Their incredible Destruction.--Used as Food.--Remarkable Instance of
their destroying every Green Herb on one Side of a River, and not on
the other.
On the Influence of the great Principle of Christianity on the Moors.
224
Of the Propagation of Christianity in Africa.--Causes that prevent
it.--The Mode of promoting it is through a friendly and commercial
Intercourse with the Natives.--Exhortation to Great Britain to attend to
the Intercourse with Africa.--Danger of the French colonizing Senegal,
and supplanting us, and thereby depreciating the Value of our
West-India Islands.
Interest of Money. 237
Application of the Superflux of Property or Capital.

Plan for the gradual Civilisation of Africa. 247
On the Commercial Intercourse with Africa, through the Sahara and
Ashantee.
Prospectus of a Plan for forming a North African or Sudan Company:
to be instituted for the Purpose of establishing an extensive Commerce
with, and laying open to British Enterprise, all the Interior Regions of
North Africa. 251
Appendix to the foregoing Prospectus, being an Epitome of the Trade
carried on by Great Britain and the European States in the
Mediterranean, indirectly with Timbuctoo, the Commercial Depot of
North Africa, and with other States of Sudan. 254
Letter from Vasco de Gama, in Elucidation of this Plan. 258
Letter on the Commercial Intercourse with Africa, in further
Elucidation of this Plan. 264
Impediments to our Intercourse with Africa. 266
Architecture of the Mosques.--Funeral Ceremonies of the
Moors,--Gardens at Fas. 271
Fragments, Notes, and Anecdotes, illustrating the Nature and
Character of the Country. 276
Introduction,--Trade with Sudan.--Wrecked Ships on the Coast,
278.--Wrecked Sailors.--Timbuctoo Coffee.--Sand Baths.--Civil War
common in West Barbary, 279.--Policy of the Servants of the
Emperor.--El Wah El Grarbee, or the Western Oasis, 280.--Prostration,
the Etiquette of the Court of Marocco, 281.--Massacre of the Jews, and
Attack on Algiers.--Treaties with Muhamedan Princes, 283.--Berebbers
of Zimurh Shelleh--The European Merchants at Mogodor escape from
Decapitation, 284.--The Body of the Emperor Muley Yezzid disinterred,
286. Shelluhs; their Revenge and Retaliation, 291.--Travelling in
Barbary.--Anecdote displaying the African Character, and showing

them to be now what they were anciently, under Jugurtha, 293.--Every
Nation is required to use its own Costume, 296.--Ali Bey (El Abassi),
Author of the Travels under that Name, 297.--The Emperor's Attack on
Dimenet, in the Atlas, 305.--Moral Justice, 306.--Contest between the
Emperor and the Berebbers of Atlas.--Characteristic Trait of
Muhamedans, 308.--Political Deception, 309.--Etiquette of the