346 REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
especially it is said : " This is the largest city which 
God has created/'* 
With regard to the account of the mountains of 
in rebus autem minutioribus cochleis quibusdam utuntur 
quse hue ex Persarum regione convehi solent, harum qua- 
dringentee aureo sequivalent : aureorum autem sex, cum 
duabus unius aurei tertiis, unciam unam pendent. Ho- 
mines natura sunt mites atque placidi ; a vigesim^ quarts 
in primam usque noctis horam cantando atque saltando 
omnes fere civitatis partes ambiunt» Mancipia utriusque 
sexiis quam plurima alunt : estque oppidum ignis injurise 
maxime obnoxium ; ubi jam secundum ad hos venissem 
dimidia fere oppida pars quinque horarum spatio igne 
deleta fuit. Nullum in suburbio hortum aut fructibus 
consitum locum reperies. 
CABRA OPPIDUM. 
Cabra sic satis amplum absque muris ad pagi moduni 
compositum oppidum, distat a Tumbuto ad flumen Nigrum 
* Recherches sur VAfrique Sept. S^c, page 184. It is true that 
this itinerary is less worthy of credit than that of Sheik Haggy- 
Cassem, translated by M. Delaporte, the date of which seems to be 
1805, and which agrees on many points with M. Cailhe. Those who 
have made this part of Africa the object of their studies will perceive 
some evident fiction in the former workt 
