l, or other fire; but when baked in
an oven it is called Agarom (g guttural.)]

It may not be improper in this place, seeing the many errors and
mutilated translations which appear from time to time, of Arabic,
Turkish and Persian papers, to give a list of the Muhamedan moons
or lunar months, used by all those nations, which begin with the
first appearance of the new moon, that is, the day following, or
sometimes two days after the change, and continue till they see the
next new moon; these have been mutilated to such a degree in all
our English translations, that I shall give them, in the original
Arabic character, and as they ought to be spelt and pronounced in
the English character, as a clue whereby to calculate the
correspondence between our year and theirs. They divide the year
into 12 months, which contain 29 or 30 days, according as they see
the new moon; the first day of the month Muharam is termed [arabic]
Ras Elame, i.e. the beginning of the year.

As we are more used to the Asiatic mode of punctuation, that will
be observed in these words.

Muharam [Arabic]
Asaffer [Arabic]
372 Arabia Elule [Arabic]
Arabea Atthenie [Arabic]
Jumad Elule [Arabic]
Jumad Athenie [Arabic]
Rajeb [Arabic]
Shaban [Arabic]
Ramadan [Arabic]
Shual [Arabic]
Du'elkada [Arabic]
Du Elhajah [Arabic]

The first of Muharram, year of the Hejra 1221, answers to the 19th
March of the Christian aera, 1806.

Among the various languages spoken south of the Sahara, we have
already observed that there are thirty-three different ones between
the Western Ocean and the Red Sea, following the shores of the Nile
El Abeed, or Niger: among all these nations and empires, a man
practically acquainted with the Arabic, may always make himself
understood, and indeed, it is the language most requisite to be
known for every traveller in these extensive regions.

The Mandinga is spoken from the banks of the Senegal, where that
river takes a northerly course from the Jibel Kuthera to the
373 kingdom of Bambarra; the Wangareen tongue is a different one; and
the Housonians spea