468 A. D. 1767. 



Zechins. 



in the heart of Africa, 

 and TombuL^oo*. 

 Gadaims\, the fame goods, 7,610 



Zcchlot. 



Gadnnus, negroes, fena, gold- 



duft, and oftrich feathers, 9,725 



The produce of the provinces of Barca, (the antient Cyreu- 

 aica) fubjecl to TripoH, is annually worth - - 20,920 



The excefs of the imports in the inland caravan trade is not a balance 

 againft Tripoli, but the grofs profit made by the trade. 



The general balance in trade againft Tripoli, is paid by the fale of 

 flaves taken in their piracies, and the money fpent among them by the 

 agents and confuls ot the feveral European powers with whom they arc 

 at peace. 



Tripoli has for fome centuries been the mart in the Mediterranean 

 for black flaves, who are annually exported thence to Conftanvinople, 

 and a few other ports in the Turkifli dominions. Chriftians being pro- 

 hibited from poflefling flaves of the Mohamedan religion, this trade is 

 wholely in the hands of Moorifli merchants, and therefor fo little known 

 to Europeans. 



Mr. Frafer obferved, that though there were no dired trade between 

 Great Britain and Tripoli, a confiderable part of the goods imported 

 into it was of Britifli manufad;ure. 



Mr. Frafer anticipated the zeal of the prefent day for difcoveries in 

 the interior parts of Africa, with which, imder prudent diredion, a 

 more extenfive, and more mutually-beneficial commerce may fome day 

 be carried on, than has ever yet been driven upon its coafts : and he 

 pointed out the moft proper method of profecuting the difcovcry, and 

 profiting by it. 



It is worthy of remark, that crimfon leather, which forms a confider- 

 able part of the exports from Tripoli, was noted as a manufacture of 

 the fame country before the age of Herodotus. 



The Britifli conful-general, and merchants, in the kingdom of Naples, 

 again complained of feveral oppreflive innovations upon the privileges 

 formerly enjoyed by the Britifli traders in that country, and particularly 

 of the fupprelfion of the vice-confuls in the outports, and a feizure 

 made by the government of an Englifli fliip ftranded at Cuma. 



So very numerous were the people in the Britifli-American colonies, 

 that fo long ago as the year 1755 Samuel Hazard of Philadelphia had 

 applied to the king for leave to eftablifli a new colony of feveral thou- 



* Mourzouc, the capital of Fizzan, and the Tombuftoo to the wclhvard, fo tliat the trade car- 



fcenc of this traffic, is about 400 miles fouth- ried on at Fczzan accomodates an extent of coun- 



fouth-caft from Tripoli. Agdes (or rather Aga- try meafnring at kail 1,300 milts from sad to 



des, called Agodoft by the geographer Edriffi) is wtft, in the very heart of Africa, 



about 750 miles fouth from Tripoli, from which f Called alfo Ghedtmes and Godem(he€, aboul 



Zamfara and Bomou extend to the eaftward, and 180 miles fouth-eaft froro Tripoli. 



