CHAPTER III. 
Arrival of Mr. Lucas at Tripoli. — His Reception hy the Bajljaw, 
— His Journey to Mefurata with the Shereefs Foiiwad and Ln- 
hammed. — His Mode of obtaining from the latter an Account 
of his Travels in the Interior Countries of Africa, — His Rettirn 
to England, 
Mr. LUCAS, having taken his paflage at Marfeilles, on board 
the St. Jean Baptifte, a fmall veflel belonging to that port, em- 
barked on the 1 8th of Oftober, 1788 ; and on the 25th of the 
fame month arrived in the harbour of Tripoh. 
The date trees, which fpread themfelves like a foreft behind 
the town, and the hills beyond them, which bound the prof|>e6l 
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