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the picture drawn of them by M. Caillie. These two tra- 
vellers then mutually confirm each other ; and the result, 
by the way, is not unimportant to geography. 
Our countryman has with so much attention and 
perseverance recorded his routes, their direction, and 
the hours of march, that one of our associates has found 
it easy to form, from his journal, a continued and com- 
plete itinerary from Kakondy to the port of Rabat, in 
the states of Morocco, in which the nature and various 
accidents of the soil are indicated, such as the mountains, 
plains, ravines, and forests, the villages and all inha- 
bited places, the rivulets, lakes, and morasses, the tor- 
rents, cataracts, fords, wells, and every thing relating 
both to the running and stagnant waters. Such minute 
details complete our confidence in the genuineness of this 
narrative. 
We will add that, having interrogated him as to the 
manner in which he made himself understood by the 
inhabitants, he told us it was principally through the 
medium of the Moorish-Arabic, spoken in Senegal, and 
which he had enjoyed the opportunity of learning in that 
country ever since 1816'. And he replied in fact in this 
dialect to the questions proposed to him by the committee; 
he moreover pronounced several words in Mandingo, in a 
manner conformable to the existing vocabularies. 
We were sensible, gentlemen, that it was our duty 
to lay before you all these considerations, and to insist 
