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FINAL ARRANGEMENTS AT GhAt. 
live by it ; otherwise it would be dangerous to trust 
to their assurances. 
We were in all but seven days in Ghat, so that I 
had no time to make researches. However, I am 
fortunate in procuring a collection of dialogues and 
a vocabulary of most of the common words in the 
Tuarick dialect of the tribes in Ghat. I employed 
for this purpose Mohammed Shereef, nephew of 
the Governor of Ghat, who is a pretty good Arabic 
scholar. I have also made an arrangement with 
my friend Haj Ibrahim to forward to the British 
Government a small quantity of Soudan manufac- 
tures for the Exhibition of 1851 ; so that the 
industry and handicraft of the dusky children of 
Central Africa may be represented side by side with 
the finished works of Paris and London artisans.* 
* This account of Mr. Richardson's residence at Ghat is copied 
from a summary in his journal, with occasional insertions from his 
despatches to Government. It is very brief and imperfect ; but the 
traveller was so fully occupied by various kinds of business during 
his stay, that he was not able to write, and only threw upon paper a 
rough memorandum after he had started on his way to Aheer. The 
imperfection is the less to be regretted, as, up to this point, the 
Sahara had previously been pretty well travelled and described. He 
now breaks fresh ground, and is more copious in his notes. — Ed. 
