ON THE AFRICAN LANGUAGES. S79 " Their common food was barley meal roasted and mixed with goat's milk and butter, and this dish they call Asamotan."

This is the common food of the Shelluhs of Atlas, and they call it by a similar name, Azamitta.

The opinion of the author of the History and Conquest of the Canary Islands, is, that the inhabitants came originally from Mauritania, and this he founds on the resemblance of names of places in Africa and in the islands : " for," says he, "Telde', which is the name of the oldest habitation in Canada, Orotaba, and Tegesta, are all names which we find given to places in Mauritania and in Mount Atlas. It is to be supposed that Canaria, Fuertaventura, and Lancerotta, were peopled by the Alarbes ", who are the nation most esteemed in Barbary; for the natives of those islands named milk AhOy and barley Temecin, which are the names that are given to those things in the language of the Alarbes of Barbary.'* He adds, that — " Among the books of a library that was in the cathedral of St. Anna in Canaria, there was found one so disfigured, that it wanted both the beginning and the end : it treated of the Romans, and gave an account, that when ' T«lde or Tildie is a place in the AtJas mountains, three miles east of Agadeer ; the castle is in ruins.

"* The Alarbes, this is the name that the inhabitants of Lower Suse and Sahara have. El Arab or Arabs.