xxii INTRO'DUC T I ON. 



plcafe. I took with me a French renegado, of the name -of 

 Ofman, recommended to me by Monfieur Bartheleny de 

 Saizieux, conful of France to that {late; a gentleman 

 iwhofe converfation and friend/hip furnifh me flill with 

 fome of the mofl agreeable reflections that remit from 

 my travels. With Ofman I took ten fpahi, or horfe- 

 .jfoldiers, well armed with firelocks and piftols, excellent 

 horfemen, and, as far as Icould everdifcern upon the few 

 occafions that^prefented, as eminent for cowardice, at leaft, 

 as they were for horfemanfhip. This was not the cafe 

 with Ofman, who was very brave, but he needed a fharp 

 look-out, that he did not often embroil us where there was 

 #ccefs to women or to wine. 



"One of the mofl agreeable favours I received was from a 

 lady of the Bey, who furnifhed me with a two-wheeled 

 covered cart, exactly like thofe of the bakers in England. 

 In this I fecured my quadrant and telefcope from the wea- 

 ther, and at times put likewife fome of the feeblefl of my 

 attendants. Befides thefe I had tenfervants, two of whom 

 were Irifli, who having deferted from the Spanifh regi- 

 ments in Oran, and being Britifh born, though flaves, as 

 being Spanifh foldiers, were given to .me at parting by the 

 Pey of Algiers, 



The coafl: along which I had failed was "part of Numidia 

 and Africa Proper, and there I met with no ruins. I refol- 

 ded now to diftribute my inland journey through the king- 

 dom of Algiers and Tunis. In order to comprehend the 

 whole, I firlt fet out along the river Majerda, through a 

 country perfectly cultivated and inhabited by people under 

 % the 





