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which they have great numbers g Buckar Sano is 
said to have maintained 300. It is very remark- 
able, that our traveller received a report of the ex- 
change of salt for gold, without the parties seeing 
each other, exactly in the manner described to 
Cadamosto ; not omitting even the hanging down 
and putrefying lips, for which salt was the only 
remedy. 
The next narrative of a voyage into the interior 
of Africa, is one which appears in a somewhat 
questionable shape. It is contained in a memoir, 
inserted at the end of Moore's volume of Travels. 
It is there said to be written by a merchant, who, 
in King Charles II. 's time, had acquired great 
wealth by his trade on the Gambia, but who care- 
fully concealed his name, from the dread, that he 
might be sent out by government upon another 
expedition. Captain Stibbs, in his journal, how- 
ever, alludes to fcjie author under the name of Ver- 
muyden, and appears evidently to have possessed a 
more copious narrative than the one which has 
reached us, since he mentions several names of 
places not there to be found. The author begins, 
by enumerating the articles with which a boat, en- 
gaged in such an expedition, ought to be laden. 
He recommends a hundred pounds of mercury, 
instead of twenty, which he himself had taken ; 
also a large provision of lead, borax, and sand, 
