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MR' LED YARD'S 
Rofetti tells mc tliat the letters I lliall have from the Aga here, 
will infure me of being conveyed, from hand to hand, to my jour- 
ney's end.. 
" The Mahometans In Africa are what the Ruffians are in 
Siberia, a trading, enterprizing, fuperftitious, warlike fet of va- 
gabonds, and wherever they are fet upon going, they will and 
do go ; but they neither can nor do make voyages merely com- 
mercial, or merely religious, acrofs Africa ; and where we do not 
find them in commerce, we find tliem not at alL They cannot 
(however vehemently puflied on by religion) afford to crofs the 
Continent without trading by the way, 
" Odober 14th. I went to-day to the market-place, where 
they vend the Black flaves that come from towards the interior 
parts of Africa : — there were 200 of them together, dreffed and 
ornamented as in their country. The appearance of a Savage in 
every region is almofl: the fame ! There were very few men 
among them : this indicates that they are prifoners of war. They 
have a great many beads and other ornaments about them that 
are from the Eaft. I was told by one of them that they came 
from the Weft of Sennar, fifty-five days journey, which may be 
about four or five hundred miles. A Negro Chief faid, the Nile 
had 
