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objections should be yet started to the opinion, I must 
leave it to future travellers to give the answer.* 
CHAPTER XXL 
Voyage from Laraish to Tripoli in Barbary. — Rising of the sea. — Storm.— Repose 
on the bank of Kirkeni.— Description of the island of the same name. — Ar- 
rival at the port of Tripoli. 
I embarked on the 13th October 1805, on board 
of a Tripolitan frigate of war, which was commanded 
by the erraiz or captain Omar; this ship lay at anchor in 
the roads of Laraish, where we remained the whole of 
the next day. On Tuesday the 15th, very early in the 
morning, we sailed, but having no fair wind, we could 
only beat about. 
Wednesday, October 16th. In the morning it be- 
gan to blow from W.S.W. and about noon we enter- 
ed the straits of Gibraltar; at half past two we pas- 
sed between Gibraltar and Ceuta, and could see both 
places, which are charmingly situated. The Spanish 
camp before Gibraltar composed of tents and barracks; 
the town of St. Roche upon a height, and Algeziras, 
* Some years after Ali Bey had made his researches on the interior sea of Af- 
rica, Mr. Jackson, British' vice-consul in Mogador, published, that the inhabi- 
tants of Tembuctu had told him, that "at a distance of fifteen days journey east 
of this place there rvas a vast lake, called Bahar Sudan, or sea of Sudan" but 
he does not give any other information of this sea, having confined his researches 
only to the inhabitants of the coasts. We are disposed to believe that these re- 
searches are more exact than those which he has made on the kingdom of Mo- 
rocco. There is a striking coincidence in the locality which he gives to this »ea. 
He states it to be fifteen days' journey east of Tombuctu, that is to say, a little 
more than two hundred miles, which, being about fifteen miles a-day of a camel's 
marching, corresponds exactly with AH Rev's calculation. — (Note of the Parisian 
°ditor ) 
