BURCKHARDT l'hAGI MAHOMMED. 453 
Sinai and to the desert situated along the eastern 
head of the Red Sea, through which the Israelites 
wandered after their departure from Egypt. Of 
all these districts, many of which have been rare- 
ly, and some never visited by any modern travel- 
ler, his papers are understood to contain an ample 
and satisfactory description. He spent the sum- 
mer of 18 17 in waiting the departure of a caravan 
for Fezzan, and had the speedy prospect of one 
from Mecca passing through Cairo, when, on the 
5th October I8I7 he was seized with a dysentery, 
which, on the 15th, brought him to an untimely 
end. Mr Salt, the present British consul in Egypt, 
gives an interesting account of the fortitude with 
wdiich he met a fate which overtook him at the 
moment when he was so near entering upon that 
career which had been the grand object of his 
ambition. 
In the course of this period, some information, 
collected from native sources, was transmitted to 
the Association. Mr Cahill from Rabat, sent 
the report of PHagi Mahommed, resident at th^ 
Well of Aroan, a station on the road to Tombuc- 
too. He states, that, about three years before, 
the king of Bambarra had conquered Tombuctoo, 
and had established there a negro government, 
though he permitted the Moors still to reside and 
carry on their trade. He adds, that he himself 
had met Park at Sansanding, and ofiered to con- 
