CHAPTER X. 
Rout from Mourzouk to Grand Cairo, according to Hadgee Ah- 
dalah Benmileitan, the prefent Governor of Mejiirata, 
Placed in a fituatlon which affords an eafy intercouife with 
the Mediterranean, and therefore with the States of Europe, 
on the one hand, and on the other with the extenfivc Em- 
pires of Bornou and Caflina, the dominions of Tombudou, and 
the various nations of Negros to the South of the Niger, the 
Merchants of Fezzan are happily polTeffed of the farther ad- 
vantage of communicating by a fafe and comparatively com- 
C c modious 
