INTRODUCTION^. XlU

artful and designing people have practised as many deceptions on the Bedouin under the cloak

of hospitality, as are practised in Christian

countries under the cloak of religion ! I cannot

but suspect, therefore, from the circumstance

before recited, that the Muselmism of Burck-

hardt was seriously suspected, and that his com-

panions only waited a convenient opportunity

in the Sahara for executing their revenge on him

for the deception.

The very favourable reception that my ac-

count of Marocco met with from the British

public ; the many things therein stated, which

are daily gaining confirmation, although they

were doubted at the period of their publication,

have contributed in no small degree, to the pro-

duction of the following sheets, in which I can

conscientiously declare, that truth has been my

guide ; I have never sacrificed it to ambition,

vanity, avarice, or any other passion. The learned, I am flattered to see, are now

beginning to adopt my orthography of African names ; they have lately adopted Timbuctoo for

the old and barbarous orthography of Tombicctoo;

they have, however, been upwards of ten years about it. In ten years more, I anticipate that Fez will be changed into Fas, and Morocco into Marocco, for this plain and uncontrovertible

reason, — because they are so spelled in the

original language of the countries, of which

they are the chief cities. Since the publica-

tion of my account of Marocco, I have seen