CHAPTER XI. 
Conclufions fuggejled hy the preceding Narrative. 
From the perufal of the preceding account, the Society are 
enabled to judge of the credit which it defer\'es, and of the va- 
lue of the information which it oiFers. If the evidence of its 
truth Ihould be thought infufficient, they will keep their minds 
in fufpence till Narratives of more confirmed authenticity fhall 
dilprove or eftablifh the relation. But if they lliould think that 
the Shereef s account of Bornou and of the Niger is too ftrongly 
fupported by the correfpondlng defcrlptlon of Ben Alii, to leave 
a fufpicion of its falfehood;. and that the fidelity of this part of 
hii 
