450 VAUIGUS LETTERS told, by people who have seen them, that they dress in the style of Barbary Moors, and wear turbans, but do not speak Arabic. See Report of Committee of Council.

** Park, in his second journey, was informed, that " one month's travel south ofBaedo, through the kingdom of Gotto, will bring the traveller to the country of the Christians, who have their houses on the banks of the Ba Seqfeena % which they describe as incomparably larger than the lake Dehebby (Dibbie)."— This is another corroboration of the accuracy of my account of the interior of Africa ; but before I dismiss this subject, I should observe, that from the general ignorance of the African Arabic, an important circumstance respecting this Ba Seafeena, is not yet (it appears) discovered. It is this :—the words Ba Seqfeena or, according to the correct Arabic orthography, Bahar Sefeena literally translated into English, signifies the Sea of Ships, and is evidently only another name for the Sea of Sudan, declaring it to be a sea wherein ships are found !

Here then are two topographical facts first asserted by me, among the moderns, to exist in the heart of Africa, and since confirmed by AH Bey, Park, and Dr. Sietzen, or, as the enlightened editor of the Supplement to the New Encyclopedia Britt. observes, " We have thus three independent testimo-P See Jackson's enlarged Account ofMarocco, &c. p. 309.

*» See New Supp. to Ency. Brit, article " Africa."