adams's narrative. 
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ready to admit ; but they certainly ought to have 
surpassed what appeared at Sego, at Sansanding, 
and other cities in this part of Africa. In losing 
the Moors, Tombuctoo would lose the most opu- 
lent of her inhabitants, the most polished, and the 
most advanced in all the arts of life* The negroes 
are everywhere inferior in these respects ; and 
here, having been so long the subject people, 
would necessarily be in a deeper state of depression. 
This great city, in becoming entirely negro, would 
contain a population more gentle and harmless in- 
deed, but also mare rude, poor, and uncivilized. 
