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 Burckhardt was seriously suspected, and that his companions only waited a convenient opportunity in the Sahara for executing their revenge on him for the deception.

The very favourable reception that my account 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 production 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 publication of my account of Marocco, I have seen