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that people. Mr Jackson, though he states the 
sovereign to be Negro, yet conceives the internal 
management and police of the city to be entirely 
Moorish. M. Dupuis also evidently apprehends, 
that there must in this respect have been some 
great defect of observation on the part of Adams. 
I confess, that, without giving up Adams's autho- 
rity altogether, I cannot concur in this supposition, 
for the whole scope of his narrative marks a city 
entirely negro, in which not only Mahommedans are 
without influence, but from which they are entire- 
ly excluded, and are constant objects of rigour, jea- 
lousy, and suspicion. He saw no appearance of 
the practice of Mahommedan rites ; no mosques ; 
nor does he believe that there are any. He adds, 
that no Moors were allowed to enter Tombuctoo, 
unless in very small parties. On arriving at Tau- 
deny, he instantly remarks the difference, and ob- 
serves, that this place is inhabited by a mixture of 
the two nations. It is added, " From the number 
,% of Moors, many, if not all, of whom were residen ts, 
" it appeared, that the restriction respecting them 
V existing at Tombuctoo did not extend to Tau- 
" deny." Here we find what had not before been 
mentioned, that there was an actual prohibition 
against the Moors residing at Tombuctoo. The 
series of statements by Adams upon this subject is 
therefore uniform, consistent, and positive. On 
the other hand, Park an4 all other writers unani- 
