ON AFRICA. 511 shell resembles the absynthum. The wild thyme is called zatar, also an article of exportation from the ports of the Marocco empire.

* " The Alsharra signifies the Book of Laws of Muhamed.

* " Gebel Ramlie should be written Jibbel Rummeliey i. e. the Sandy Mountain.

" The Elwah Elgarbie is inhabited by the Maggrebee Arabs. My late friend, Muley Abd Salam, elder brother to Muley Soliman, the reigning Emperor of Marocco, had a very large estate inthisWah, called Santariah. In the 179dyear of the Christian era, he sent his friend and servant Alkaid Muhammed ben Abd Saddack, late governor of Mogodor, to effect the sale of this estate. He was absent on this embassy two years and three months.** " Sheb is the Arabic for alum, the correct orthography is Shib.

" Marybucks should be Marabet, i. e. Priests, or Holy Muhamedans.

" The primitive plough is used in all the African countries inhabited by the Arabs, or their descendants ; the negroes, however, use the hoe.

« Vide Leyden's Africa, p. SI 2.

» Ibid, p. 334. «» Ibid, p. S98.

* Let the African traveller be careful to pronounce these g's guttural c.

Ibid, p. 399. ' Ibid. ibid, f Ibid. p. 225. 8 Ibid. p. 227.