SSS Diiptufy^s Account of 



Fig tree — Carna Carmoor. Kciniusc is 



tlie Arabic for fis^s. 

 Thus Ihcre appears, in a list of sixteen 

 names of things in the Timbuctoo 

 language, 



Seven are Arabic 

 Nine areSondanie; 

 sotJiattbe languao;e is evidently a mix- 

 ture of Arabic and Sondanic. 



Wolid Abusebbab, a tribe of Arabs 

 in the dcsart, first noticed !)v Jackson, 

 (see bis map, j). 282,) is confirmed b}' Dc- 

 j>uis, (notc,in Adams'sNarrativc, pp. 2135, 

 23(5,237 ;) the latter gentleman's aceonnt 

 of the emigralion of the Arabs of ^\'olid 

 Abnscbbah, is a corroiionUion of Jack- 

 son's account of a similar emigration, 

 (page 175.) 



La Mar Zaraii of Adams, (vide page 

 24,) may probably be El Eahar Z:nak 

 (that is, the Blue l?iver), or Jil Hahar 

 Sahara (that is, the Kiver of the Desarl); 

 <"ithcr of whicli may proceed from the 

 desart, and empty itself in the Nile El 

 Abude, south of Tiinbucloo ; or it may 

 possibly be a more latitudinal corruplion 

 of the stream or river of the desart called 

 Sakia cl Htimra (tl)at is, the Red 

 Stream), which passes through the <!e- 

 sart of 8a!)iiva, and cmplies ilself in the 

 ISilecl Ahudc, somewhere ncar'^l'imbnc- 

 ioo! This stream is well-known by tlie 

 Arabs who are accustomed to cross the 

 tlcsart, and they report the w aters there- 

 of to be brackish and red. 



M\. Jackson (p. 297,) asserts, the city 

 «f Timbuctoo to be without walls; 

 Adams confirms this, (p. 25.) The Nile 

 HI Abude is described, (p. 99,) as passing 

 to the eastward through fertile countries, 

 cast and south-east of the desart ; this 

 is a confirmation of what Jackson says, 

 (p. 312 ;) for, although nothing is said by 

 Adams of the population of the country, 

 through which the river passes, yet fer- 

 lililv implies population, and it is rea- 

 sonable to suppose that the inhabitants 

 of the desart, contiguous to the river, 

 •Would leave their barren habitations, 

 and exchange them for the fertile coun- 

 try along the banks of the river. 



The large lake mentioned in Adams's 

 Narrative, p. 120, may probably be the 

 Uahar Soudan, or Sea of Soudan, de- 

 scribed by Jackson as fifteen days'j jur- 

 Ijcy cast of Timbuctoo. Another re- 

 markable confirmation of this interior 

 Sea, nicHtioued so minutely by Jackson, 

 is confirmed by AH Bey in his Travels, 

 vol. i. 4to. pp. 220, 221. 



Vasco de Gama. 



^ton; Oct. 25, 1816. 



the Genoese Gallics. [Dec. 1, 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



IN your Number for October, I 

 noticed the connuunication of a 

 'friend to equal justice,' referring to a 

 passage in Lady Craven's Journey to 

 Constantinople, allusive to the treat- 

 uient of Algcrine captives by the Ge- 

 noese: Lady Craven terms them pri- 

 soners of war; but we must not permit 

 our hiimanity so far to confound our 

 perceptions, as to consider them exactly 

 in that light. 'J"he Algerincs decline 

 all ransom, or exchange of prisoners; 

 and it is too much to expect from a 

 state which sutlers by their piracies, 

 tiiat compassion which they refuse to ( 



one another. The length and captivity 

 of these miserables, therefore, is attri- 

 butable to the ravage neglect of their 

 own countrymen ; but here all vindica- 

 tion must cease; their treatment in 

 Genoa has long been a reproach to the 

 Christian cliaractcr. I translate the 

 following account of the Genoese Gal- 

 lirs, from the letters of the celebrated 

 Dupaly, on Italy, written in the vciy 

 same year as those of Lady Craven, 

 (1785.) If compared with Captain 

 Crokcr's recent, forcible description of 

 the treatment of Christian slaves in 

 Algiers, wc cannot i)erccive thnt Genoa, 

 in the exhibition of humanity, has any 

 very dcci<lcd advantage. 



"I have been this morning to visit 

 the gallies (of Genoa) ; the slaves, who 

 are attached indiscriminately to the 

 same chain, arc of five description.s — • 

 felons, smugglers, deserters, Algerine 

 Turks taken at sea, and volunteers. 



"Volunteers! you will say. Who are 

 they? — TVIen, allow me to inforni you, 

 struggling with misery and famine; 

 whom the government agents seek out, 

 and tempt to enrol themselves for 

 eight years' .slavery, by a bounty. Thus, 

 the gallies of Genoa exhibit poverty 

 and criminality fettered by the same 

 chain ;— those who serve the Republic 

 partaking of the misery of those wlro be- 

 tray it. 



"The Genoese carry their barbarity 

 still farther — when the allotted period 

 of the poor wretches is about to expire, 

 they are seduced into the acceptance of 

 small loans, which not being able to re- 

 pay, they arc constrainc^d to enter for 

 another eight yeers to discharge them. 

 Owing to these artifices many have 

 passed their «hole lives in these gallies, J 

 by whom a penal crime was never com- ^ 

 mitted. 



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