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Of the Venomous Spider.--Charmers of Serpents.--Disease called
Nyctalopia, or Night-blindness.--Remedy for Consumption in
Africa.--Western Branch of the Nile, and Water Communication
between Timbuctoo and Egypt. 429
Offer to discover the African Remedy for Nyctalopia or
Night-blindness, in a Letter addressed to the Editor of the Literary
Panorama. 432
Letter to the same. 433
Critical Observations on Extracts from the Travels of Ali Bey and
Robert Adams, in the Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science, and the
Arts, edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Vol. I. No. 2, p.
264. 435
On the Junction of the Nile of Egypt with the Nile of Timbuctoo, or of
Sudan. 443
Strictures respecting the Interior of Africa, and Confirmation of
Jackson's Account of Sudan, annexed to his Account of the Empire of
Marocco, &c. 446
Animadversions on the Orthography of African Names (by Catherine
Hutton). 455

Hints for the Civilization of Barbary, and Diffusion of Commerce, by
Vasco de Gama. 457
Plan for the Conquest of Algiers, by Vasco de Gama. 461
Letter from El Hage Hamed El Wangary, respecting a Review of Ali
Bey's Travels, in the "Portfolio," an American Periodical Work. 464
On the Negroes (by Vasco de Gama). 465
Cursory Observations on Lieutenant Colonel Fitzclarence's Journal of a
Route across India, through Egypt, to England. 467
On the Arabic Language, as now spoken in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
471
Cursory Observations on the Geography of Africa, inserted in an
Account of a Mission to Ashantee, by T. Edward Bowdich, Esq.
showing the Errors that have been committed by European travellers on
that Continent, from their Ignorance of the Arabic Language, the
learned and the general travelling Language of that interesting Part of
the World. 474
Commercial Intercourse with the Interior of Africa. 493
The Embassage of Mr. Edmund Hogan, one of the sworne Esquires of
Queen Elizabeth, from Her Highness, to Muley Abdelmelech,
Emperour of Marocco, and King of Fez and Sus, in the Yeare 1577.
Written by Himselfe. 494
Letter from the Author to Macvey Napier, Esq. F.R.S.L., and E. 505
Observations on an Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in
Africa, by the late John Leyden, M.D. by Hugh Murray, Esq. F.R.S.E.
508
Cursory Observations on African Names. 509
Letter to the Author from Hugh Murray, Esq. F.R.S.E. 513

On the Two Niles of Africa, or the Niger and the Nile. 514
APPENDIX.
Historical Fragments in Elucidation of the foregoing pages. 519
First Expedition on Record to Timbuctoo--Timbuctoo and Guago
captured by Muley Hamed (Son of Muley Abdelmelk, commonly
called Muley Melk, or Muley Moluck) in the Sixteenth Century (about
the Year 1580). 519
A Library of 3000 Arabic Manuscripts taken by the
Spaniards.--Contests among Christians reprimanded. 520
Muley El Arsheed (a Second Expedition to Timbuctoo and Sudan). 521
Third Expedition to Timbuctoo and Sudan. 523
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DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.
Map of the Tracks across the Sahara to Timbuctoo, to face. 1
Map of the Empire of Marocco. 55
[Illustration]
1
AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY FROM FAS TO TIMBUCTOO,
PERFORMED IN OR ABOUT THE YEAR 1787, A.C. BY EL HAGE
ABD SALAM SHABEENY.
The Moors always prefer the spring and summer for travelling, because
they suffer very much from the severe cold of the mornings in winter.
They generally leave Fas in the beginning of April to proceed to
Timbuctoo, and they leave Timbuctoo to return to Fas in the month of
January.

The Mecca caravan takes its departure from Fas the beginning of
March.
In travelling, the Moors hire their camels from stage to stage.
Shabeeny's first stage was from Fas[1] to Tafilelt, which is generally
performed in about twenty days.
[Footnote 1: This is a journey of crooked and rugged roads across the
Atlas mountains, where they often sojourn in spots which invite the
traveller, so that it takes a longer time to perform it than the distance
would indicate.] 2 The hire of every camel was from ten to twelve
ducats, at five shillings sterling per ducat; as this route is through a very
mountainous country, and the travelling is very bad, the charges were
proportionally high; the weight which every camel carried was between
four and five quintals, the camels in this country being strong and very
large.[2]
Tafilelt is the place of general meeting of all the merchants who go to
Timbuctoo.[3]
The territory of Tafilelt contains no towns, but abounds in fortresses
with mud-walls[4], which the natives call El Kassar, and which contain
from three to four hundred families; in these fortresses there is a public
market (in Arabic, soke) every week, where the inhabitants purchase
provisions, &c.
The natives of Tafilelt are descendants of the shereefs[5] or princes of
Marocco, and are therefore of the Imperial family.
[Footnote 2: This charge of carriage by the camels from