TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LVI. 
outworks, consisting of moats, which the inhabitants 
had thrown up in front of their town, besides the 
threefold wall, and the double moat which surrounded 
the latter, as shown in the woodcut. 
1. Outer entrance, leading into a large square surrounded with a double 
moat, and containing three huts for the guards. 
2. Second entrance, leading from this outwork through the outer moat 
which surrounds the town. 
3. Gate leading into the projecting angle of the wall, from which a second 
gate leads into the town. 
4. Granite mounts inside the town. 
5. Outer moats of the wall. 
6. Situation of my tent. 
7. Granite mount outside the town. 
8. Open pasture-grounds. 
The town was said to have been founded only 
three years before, being peopled from the remains 
of other places, which were destroyed by the enemy. 
It may contain from 8000 to 9000 inhabitants ; but 
it had recently suffered from a conflagration. The 
wall was full of loopholes, and it had a gate on each 
side except the eastern one. 
Having made our way with great difficulty through 
the moats, instead of taking up our quarters inside 
the wall, to the great astonishment of the people we 
pitched our tent outside, at some distance from the 
