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CHAP. XIV. 
t>P The moors who occupy the eight bank of thS 
5ENEGAL, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR ORIGIN, MAN-- 
iNERS, CUSTOMS, RELIGION, AND LANGUAGE. ®FTHE 
GUM TRADE, WHICH THEY EXCLUSIVELY CARRY ON. 
NATURE AND RESULT OF THAT TRAFFIC. DESCRIP- 
TION OF THE TREE WHICH PRODUCES THE GUM. 
J[ HE right bank of the Senegal is under the dominion of the 
Kegro kings. Brack and Siratick^ who, as we have already 
stated, reside on the left bank; but their sovereignty on the right 
side is almost nugatory : for there begins the immense desert 
which runs from east to west, from the sea as far as Galam ; and 
from south to north, from the Senegâl to the kingdom of Mo- 
rocco. This sea of sand is known by the name of the Great De- 
sert of Sahara t and is inhabited by the Moors, who, instead 
of acknowledging the authority of the Negro kings^ are their ir- 
reconcilable enemies. 
The name of Moors, which is given to all the tribes of the 
desert, seems to indicate that they are formed of the aborigènes; 
that is to say, that they have all descended unmixed from the 
Numidians, who, in the earliest times of which history informs 
US;, inhabited the coasts of Africa, and the whole of the countries 
called Numidia and Mauritania ; but their manners, customs, 
religion, and particularly their language, invincibly prove that 
the primitive race has been intermixed with other people, who 
brought them those ideas and diat idiom which prevailed iu 
another part of the world. They are at present distributed into 
tribes of greater or less extent, which are independent of each 
other, and each of which has its chief. Every tribe is divided 
into hordes ; and each horde encamps on such a spot as will 
afford pasturage for their cattle ; so that a whole tribe is never 
united in the same quarter. 
In the interior of the desert reside the tribes of the Wade- 
lims, of Labdesscba, Laroussye, Cbelus, Tocanois^ Oiiadelis, 
Gedingouma, Jafanon, Ludamar, and several others. The Hrst 
two are the most formidable, and extend their predatory system 
tis far as the environs of Morocco, whose eniperor is inconstant 
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