ws only in West Barbary to cry "Ah! Ah!" and lacerate their faces
465 with their finger nails; after which they wash, drink brandy, and
enjoy themselves.

The large sea in the interior of Africa, described by Ali Bey to be
without any communication with the Ocean, had been described
(_years before Ali Bey's travels were published_) by Jackson, in
his Account of Marocco, &c. &c. third edition, p. 309, and called
first by him _Bahar Sudan_, and represented as a sea having decked
vessels on it. Mr. Park, in his Second Journey, calls this sea the
Bahar Seafina, without, however, informing the public, or knowing,
that the Bahar Sefeena is an Arabic expression implying a sea of
ships, or a sea where ships are found; and the situation he places
it in coincides exactly with Jackson's prior description. There are
thus three concurrent testimonies of the situation of the Bahar
Sudan, or Sea of Sudan, _first noticed by Jackson_, and since
confirmed by Ali Bey and Park.[274]

EL HAGE HAMED EL WANGARY.

[Footnote 274: There is an able discussion of this subject in
the New Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica, article
"Africa," p. 104, and 105.]

_On the Negroes_.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.)

Sir,

Eton, 5th Dec. 1818.

Many maintain that the Negroes are a docile and tractable race, and
more easily to be governed than Europeans; others maintain, that
466 they are liars, thieves, vindictive, and a demoralised race. That
they are vindictive, no one who is acquainted with their character
will deny; but are not most barbarous and uncivilised nations the
same? What are the Muhamedans and Pagans? The latter, who form
nearly two-thirds of the population of the earth, are generally of
the same character, and the vindictive character of the former is
notorious.

Propagate among the Negroes the benign principles of the Christian
doctrine, and they will gradually (as those principles are
inculcated) become good subjects, and useful members of society. It
is that religion which will bring forth their latent and social
virtues--a religion, the moral principles of which are the
admiration even of its enemies, the Muhamedans themselves: a
religion which exalts the human charac