tate in this Wah,
called Santariah. In the 1793d year of the Christian era, he sent
his friend and servant Alkaid Muhammed ben Abd Saddack, late
governor of Mogodor, to effect the sale of this estate. He was
absent on this embassy two years and three months.[304]

"_Sheb_ is the Arabic for alum, the correct orthography is
_Shib_.[305]

"_Marybucks_ should be _Marabet_, i.e. Priests, or Holy
Muhamedans.[306]

"The primitive plough is used in all the African countries
inhabited by the Arabs, or their descendants; the negroes, however,
use the hoe." [307]

[Footnote 300: Vide Leyden's Africa, p. 312.]

[Footnote 301: Ibid, p. 334.]

[Footnote 302: Ibid, p. 398.]

[Footnote 303: Let the African traveller be careful to
pronounce these g's guttural (Arabic.)]

[Footnote 304: Ibid, p. 399.]

[Footnote 305: Ibid. ibid.]

[Footnote 306: Ibid. p. 225.]

[Footnote 307: Ibid. p. 227.]

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"The Mouselmines is a French corruption of the term Muselman, i.e.
Mohamedans.

"Mongearts, i.e. Moguert, the g guttural.

"Ouadelim, i.e. Wooled Deleim, or the sons of Deemy.

"Labdessebah, i.e. Woled Abbusebah, 'the sons of Abbusebah.'[308]

"Wed de Non, i.e. Wedinoon.

"The herb, with a decoction of which they dye their nails and
hands, is called by the Arabs _El Henna_: it imparts a coolness and
softness to the hands, and diminishes the excessive perspiration
incident to warm climates.[309]

"Hooled ben Soliman ought to be Woled ben Soliman, 'the sons of the
sons of Soliman;' and Benioled, should be Ben El Waled, 'the sons
of Elwaled.'[310]

"The small beautiful species of deer, is the _El Horreh:_ it is an
inhabitant of the confines of the Saharah; it is said never to lie
down. It produces the anti-poison called bezoar stone, (called in
the Arabic _Bide El Horrek_, i.e. the testicle of the Horreh.) This
is an article of commerce at Santa Cruz, and Wedinoon. The back and
sides of the skins of these animals are of a red brown, and of a
vivid white underneath." [311]

[Footnote 308: Vide Leyden's Africa, p. 262.]

[Footnote 309: Ibid. p. 291.]

[Footnote 310: Ibid. p. 299.]

[Footnote 311: Ibid. p. 303.]

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TO JAMES GREY JACKSON, ESQ.