INTRODUCTION 
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CHAPTER IV. 
An account has aheady been given of the opportunity which 
the length of his refidence in Mefurata afforded to Mr. LucaSj 
of obtaining from the Shereef Imhammed a defcription of the 
Kingdom of Fezzan, and of fuch of the countries beyond it to the 
South as the Shereef himfelf had vilited. 
But though this intelhgent ftranger had no difcoverable mo- 
tive for deception, yet as the foUtary evidence of any individual 
excites but a dubious behef, Mr. Lucas was anxious to learn 
from the Governor of Mefurata, who had formerly travelled to 
Fezzan, his idea of the truth of the Narrative. With this view 
he afked and received the Governor's permiffion to read to him 
the memorandums that the repeated converfations of Imham-> 
med had enabled him to make. 
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