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ceived from him during that and the two follow- 
ing years, very serious despondence began to arise. 
On the 17th January 1804 the Altona Gazette 
stated, that, in September 1808, Mr Nissen, the 
Danish consul at Tripoli, saw there a merchant of 
Fezzan, lately arrived by the caravan, and inquir- 
ing of him after Jussuph, the name under which 
Horneman travelled, the merchant replied, that 
Jussuph was gone to Gondasch, with the view of 
thence proceeding to the coast and returning to 
Europe. It was elsewhere stated, that the mer* 
chant had come from Buran. Neither Gondasch 
nor Buran had ever been heard of in Europe ; but 
the cities of the interior are too little known to 
make this a subject of wonder ; nor is it easy to 
say, in passing through so many hands, what 
transformation the sounds of an unknown lan- 
guage may undergo. In the Report of June 1st 
1805, Sir William Young states, that Mr M'Do- 
nogh, long consul at Tripoli, had mentioned to 
himself " having, while at Tripoli, received ac- 
" counts from a very respectable Moorish mer- 
" chant, that Jussuph, or Horneman, had been 
" well at Cas'na about the month of June 1808, 
" and that he was there highly respected as a 
" Marabout or Musulman saint." No other pre- 
cise information was ever obtained respecting this 
traveller; though, on the 28th May 1808, the 
committee report, that they are " not without 
