J40 Travelsi^hroUgh ih^ Interior of Africa. 



purpofe of fupplying the town with water. There are only 

 about a hundred Hone houfes in the town^ becaufe the ftones 

 muft be brought from a great diftance; but the number of 

 if:he huts is confiderable. Thev are built of the trunks of 

 the pahn tree, and covered with pahii leaves. The niofques 

 and temples, which amount to about a hundred, are con^ 

 ltru(9;ed of palm branches interwoven with each other, and 

 are covered in the fame manner as the huts. 



After leaving Sille, our traveller fet out with a caravan, 

 and pafiing Muta, Saatata, and Sanoho, or the Gold Moun- 

 tains, reached the confines of the kingdom of Nytokka, 

 Here the caravan relied a day, and then crofiing the Gatta 

 Mahara, or Defert of Lions, which is fix days journey in 

 length, arrived among a people called the Seegmartons, who 

 refide in holes and caverns of the moim-tains. Thefe people 

 have neither king nor ruler, but live in a ftate of unreftrained 

 freedom, and forrn excellent foldiers, who, on the breaking 

 out of a war, are taken into pay by fome of the neighbouring 

 nations. 



Qn the 24i\\ of May t]:)e caravan afcended a |arge chairt 

 of mountains, and, continuing their journey through a fandy 

 defert, arrived on the ift of June at a village of the kingdom 

 of Watometh, where they halted. Oh the 5th of June they 

 afcended another chain of mountains, croiied the Sampi 

 river by fwimming, but were expofed to great danger on 

 account of its being at that time much fwollen, and, pafling 

 fome fandy plains, reached the boundaries of the kingdom of 

 Tamphata. Here they were attacked by a horde of Arabs, 

 and loft two men and a camel \ but they efcaped without 

 further lofy, and arrived at the mountams which form the 

 boundaries of the large defert of Sahara. 



After this our traveller fell fick near a place called Euyfach, 

 and, being jeft behind by the caravan, yemaiuecl in the next 

 village, urider the care of a Jew, until he recovered. He theri 

 proceeded on horfebackj accompanied by fome Moors, to 

 Tegorarin, where tlie Moors fold hiin to a flave-merchant, 

 for whom he made various articles of furniture, and who 

 carried him, along with four young female (laves, to Omor 

 iab, and refold him to a MofTelemi. He, however, did not 



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