ARRIVAL AT TOULON. ^^^3 
on board the sloop La L4ghre^ suffering much from fever^ and 
the Commander Jolivet supplied me with every thing neces- 
sary in my situation. 
On the 28th, at six in the morning, we set sail with a fair 
wind, and to my great satisfaction soon lost sight of Tangier. 
M. Jolivet 's cares had a beneficial effect upon my health; 
the fever left me, and the fine sea-breezes soon completed my 
recovery. We arrived at Toulon after a very favourable 
voyage of ten days. 
Those who have been long absent from their native land, 
and have good cause to fear that they may never return, can 
alone form an idea of my sensations on my restoration to my 
beloved country. While in quarantine I wrote to M. Jomard, 
President of the central commission of the Geographical 
Society, to announce my travels to him. 1 soon after re- 
ceived, as the first proof of the benevolent interest of this 
learned association, the sum of five hundred francs, to defray 
the expenses of my journey to Paris : nor was it long before I 
enjoyed the glorious reward of its merited approbation. The 
society applauded my zeal, and awarded to me the recompense 
promised to the first traveller who should penetrate to the 
mysterious town of Timbuctoo, and bring from thence his 
authentic observations. The government graciously received 
the Society's report upon my travels, and soon bestowed upon 
me distinguished marks of its munificence and honourable 
protection. 
But this flattering success raised adversaries against me : 
some alleged that I had never reached Timbuctoo ; others, 
that I had been shipwrecked on the coast of Barbary, and, 
having obtained possession of some vague intelligence re- 
specting the interior of the country, had imposed it upon the 
public for the results of my personal observations. I have 
been even accused of changing my religion at every station. 
To this malevolent imputation, I answer : that I externally 
adopted the forms of the Mahometan worship as the only 
