IN CENTRAL AFRICA: 351 
of wealth to ancient Europe^ overcharged with debts and 
population^ and ready to sink under this double burden^ 
if some new outlets are not speedily opened to her in- 
dustry. 
If it were possible to doubt the veracity of the tra- 
veller ; if it could be supposed that all which has been 
hitherto said has still left any uncertainty in the minds of 
those who^ in the first instance, manifested some incre- 
dulity, the results which I have just recapitulated would 
remain equally doubtful: it is their importance which in- 
duces me to neglect nothing here which may dispel doubts, 
if they still exist. I shall first cite, as a sure testimony of 
this veracity, an Arabic manuscript which Lander received 
two years ago from the hands of his master Captain Clap- 
perton, and which M. Salame translated in London, at 
the very time that M. Caillie was completing his enter- 
prise : it is a description of part of the Soudan. One may 
read a portion of the i\frican text, with the new map in 
one's hand, for the countries common to this description 
and to the itinerary, that is to say, as far as Timbuctoo. 
I will even add that it would have been completely un- 
intelligible to me, without the assistance of this map*. 
The alteration in the names of places does not prevent 
their being recognized ; for many of the differences, it 
aj)pears evident to me, arise only from carelessness in 
* See the French translation, by Messrs. Eyries and de la Re- 
naudiere, tome II, supplement, pages 298, etc. 
