INTERIOR OF AFRICA. 
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CHAPTER IX. 
Some Account of Jarra, and the Moorish Inhabitants. — The Au- 
thor applies for, and obtains Permission from Ali, the Moorish 
Chief or Sovereign of Ludamar, to pass through his Territories, 
— Departs from Jarra, and arrives at Deena — ill treated by the 
Moors. — Proceeds to Sampaka — -finds a Negro who makes Gun- 
powder. — Continues his Journey to Samee, where he is seized 
by some Moors who are sent for that Purpose by Ali — is conveyed 
a Prisoner to the Moorish Camp at Benowm, on the Borders of 
the Great Desert. 
The town of Jarra is of considerable extent : the houses are 
built of clay and stone intermixed ; the clay answering the 
purpose of mortar. It is situated in the Moorish kingdom of 
Ludamar ; but the major part of the inhabitants are Negroes, 
from the borders of the southern states, who prefer a precarious 
protection under the Moors, which they purchase by a tribute, 
rather than continue exposed to their predatory hostilities. The 
tribute they pay is considerable ; and they manifest towards 
their Moorish superiors the most unlimited obedience and sub- 
mission, and are treated by them with the utmost indignity and 
contempt. The Moors of this, and the other states adjoining 
the country of the Negroes, resemble in their persons the Mu- 
lattoes of the West Indies to so great a degree, as not easily to 
