INTERIOR OF AFRICA. 1^1 
said there were many Jews at Tombuctoo, but they all spoke 
Arabic, and used the same prayers as the Moors. He frequent- 
ly pointed his hand to the south-east quarter, or rather the east 
by south ; observing, that Tombuctoo was situated in that 
direction ; and though I made him repeat this information, again 
and again, I never found him to vary more than half a point, 
which was to the southward. 
April 24th. This morning Shereef Sidi Mahomed Moora 
Abdalla, a native of Morocco, arrived with five bullocks loaded 
with salt. He had formerly resided some months at Gibraltar, 
where he had picked up as much English, as enabled him to 
make himself understood. He informed me, that he had been 
five months in coming from Santa Cruz ; but that great part of 
the time had been spent in trading. When I requested him to 
enumerate the days employed in travelling from Morocco to 
Benowm, he gave them as follows : — to Swera, three days ; to 
Agadier, three ; toJiniken,ten ; to Wadenoon,four ; toLakeneig, 
five ; to Zeeriwin-zeriman, five ; to Tisheet, ten ; to Benowm, 
ten ; in all fifty days : but travellers usually rest a long while at 
Jiniken and Tisheet ; at the latter of which places they dig the 
rock salt, which is so great an article of commerce with the 
Negroes. 
In conversing with these Shereefs, and the different strangers 
that resorted to the camp, I passed my time with rather less 
uneasiness than formerly. On the other hand, as the dressing 
of my victuals was now left entirely to the care of Ali's slaves, 
over whom I had not the smallest control, I found myself but 
ill supplied, worse even than in the fast month : for two sue-? 
