not the least affinity in taste, shape, growth, or quality, to
beans. The Arabic name correctly converted into European letters,
is _timmer_, not _tummer_. The Arabic words designating sweet
beans, is _Elfool El Hellue_. The passage signed William Hutchison
here alluded to, is this: "The Arabs eat black rice, corn, and
_sweet beans called tummer_."

[Footnote 292: _Heimed_ is an Arabic term, signifying that
degree of heat which milk has when coming from the cow or
goat.]

Note, page 204. I do not know whence the Quarterly Review has
489 derived its information respecting the derivation of the word Misr
(a corruption of Massar); the word Massar is compounded of the two
Arabic words Ma and Sar; i.e. Mother of Walls. Possibly some Arabic
professor versed in bibliographic lore, to favor a darling
hypothesis, has transmuted Massar into Misr, to strengthen the
plausibility of the etymology of Misr from Misraem!!

Note, page _205_. _Bahar bela ma_ is an Arabic expression,
importing it to be a country once covered with water, but now no
longer so. In the note in this page, I recognise the word Sooess to
designate the Isthmus of Suez. The Bahar Malee, and the Sebaha
Bahoori, are Negro corruptions of the Arabic words _Bahar El
Maleh_, and _Seba Baharet_: the former does not apply particularly
to the Mediterranean, but _is a term applicable to any sea or ocean
that is salt_ (as all seas and oceans assuredly are); the latter
term signifies literally, the Seven Seas or Waters: neither is this
a term applicable to the Mediterranean, but to any sea supplied by
seven rivers, as the Red Sea: these, therefore, are evidently other
inaccuracies of Mr. Hutchison. I apprehend Mr. Hutchison's Arabic
tutor at Ashantee was not an erudite scholar. The term, and the
only term in Africa, applicable to the Mediterranean Sea, is the
_Bahar Segrer_ (literally the Small Sea); and _El Bahar El Kabeer_
(is the Atlantic Ocean, or literally the Great Sea); the latter is
sometimes figuratively called the _Bahar Addolum_, i.e. the Unknown
Sea, or the Sea of Darkness.
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Note, p. 206. Is it possible that the author doubts that Wangara is
east of Timbuctoo? It should seem that he did, as he quotes Mr.
Hutchison as authority for making it to contain Kong, a mountainous