CONTENTS.

An Account of a Journey from Fas to Timhuctoo^ per* formed about the year 1787, by El Hage Abd Salam

Shabeenyy - - - - - Page 1

Route to Timbactoo. — Situation of the City. —

Population. — Inns or Caravanseras, called Fondaks. —

Houses. — Government. — Revenue. — Army. — Ad-

ministration of Justice. — Succession to Property.

Marriage.— Trade. —= Manufactures. — Husbandry.—

Provisions. — Animals. — Birds. — Fish. — Prices of

different Articles. — Dress. — Time. — Religion. —

Diseases. — Manners and Customs. — Neighbouring

Nations.

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The River Neel or Nile. — Housa. — Government. — Administration of Justice. — Landed Property. —

Revenues. — Army. — Trade.— Climate.— Zoology.—

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Diseases. — Religion.— Persons.— Dress.— Buildings. — Manners. — Gold.— Limits of the Empire.

Letters^ containing an Account qfjournies through various

Parts of West and South Barbary, at different Periods,

personally performed by J» G. Jackson - 55

Letter L (To James Willis, Esq., late British Consul

for Senegambia.) On theOpening of the Port of Agadeer,

or Santa Cruz, in the Province of Suse ; and of its Cession by the Emperor Muley Yezzid to the Dutch ibid.