AND ANECDOTES. 345 Circumcision, The circumcision of male children is the general practice of Islaemism ; it is also used among some of the * Khaffers or Cqfers of North, Central, and South Africa. Circumcision is not a practice ascribed to a principle of cleanliness, or any other cause, but ancient usage. The period of performing this operation among the Arabs is at the age of eight years.

Invoice from Timbuctoo to Santa Cruz.

Transport of Alk Sudan') gum of Sudan, bought at Timbuctoo, on account of Messrs. James Jackson and Co. by their agent, L'Hage Muhamed O n, and dispatched to Akka by the spring (akkaba) accumulated caravan, in February, 1794.

M. DolL SOO camel loads of gum-sudan, each weighing 2501b. nett, bought at Timbuctoo, at four Mexico dollars per load, ---800 * Khqffvr (singular number) is an Arabic term, applied to all who are not Muhamedans; all Pagans, Jews, and Christians, are called Khaffer, JCfer (plural) Kaffer billa, an atheist : hence Caffraria, the name of the country near the Cape of Good Hope.

This gum is the produce of an enormous tree of Sudan, which flourishes near Timbuctoo, Housa, Wangara, and Bernoh (or Bernou) it is transported by the caravans to Alexandria in Egypt, to Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers. From the African ports in the Mediterranean it is shipped to Smyrna and Constantinople, and from thence to England, under the denomination of Turkey gum; some goes ta Mogodor and Tetuan, and thence to London,