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Muhamedan saints, among the lower orders, have kindled a high
degree of rancour and animosity, (equal to that which the Catholics
formerly indulged towards their protestant brethren,) which will
never be extinguished until a friendly alliance and extensive
commercial intercourse be established with them; which alone can
soften this rancour and animosity into peace and amity. This
animosity has been increased also by the rancorous anti-christian
disposition manifested towards these people by the writings of
Roman catholic priests and others.[179] If these uncharitable
opinions of each other could be eradicated, the blessings that
would result to the Africans would be incalculable; a reciprocal
exchange of good offices might pave the way to purchase of the
Emperor of Marocco the port of Agadeer or Santa Cruz, aptly
denominated, from its contiguity to the Sahara (_Beb Sudan_) "the
gate of Sudan," which, in the hands of the English, would be the
key to the whole of the interior of Africa, and an effectual link
269 in our chain of communication with the interior of that
undiscovered continent; it would moreover secure to us the entire
commerce of those extensive and populous regions, to the exclusion
of our Moorish competitors of Cairo, Alexandria, Tripoli, Tunis,
Algiers, and other ports of Barbary, who supply the people of Sudan
with European merchandise at the fourth, fifth, and sixth hand.

[Footnote 178: _Kaffer (or Caffre_) is an Arabic word which
signifies infidels or unbelievers (in Muhamed); the very name
has been given by Muhamedans, and therefore it is to be
presumed that the Muhamedans approximate the countries
contiguous to the Cape.]

[Footnote 179: See Martin Martinius. Abraham Ecchellensis.
Maccarius, Theolog. Polemic. Peter Cevaller. Robert de Retz,
translator of the Koran. See also the support of this assertion
in Jackson's Account of the Empire of Marocco, enlarged
edition, published by Cadell and Davies, Strand, from p. 196.
to 208.]

The abolition of the slave-trade cannot be effected until we shall
have substituted some commerce with the Negro countries, equivalent
at least, or that shall be more than equivalent to it, otherwise
the negro sovereigns of Sudan will never be induc