APPENDIX. 521 presence. He then addressed them thus : — « I command you all, on pain of death, not to dispute in future on the various dogmas of your law : every one has the presumption to think himselfright ; and as I allow every individual in my dominions to follow the religion that he chooses for himself; slaves ought to have among them--selves the same toleration.

Mnley El Arsheed, {a second Expedition to Timhuctoo and Sudan,) This Sultan preceded the renowned Muley Ismael, on the throne of Marocco : he united to great ability the most ferocious disposition, and was continually inebriated.— He crossed the Sahara to Timbuctoo, with a numerous army, about the year of Christ 1 670 ; proceeding to Suse he laid siege to the Sanctuary of Seedi Aly hen Aidar, near llirgh : Seedi Aly, making his escape in disguise, fled to Sudan, whither he was followed by Muley El Arsheed, who, on his arrival on the confines of Sudan, between Timbuctoo and Jinnie, was met by a numerous host of Negroes, commanded by a black sultan ; the Emperor demanded Aly ben Aidar ; but the sultan of Bambarra replied, that, as he had claimed his protection, it would be an infi-ingement on the laws of hospitality to deliver him up , adding, " that he desired to know ifthe views of El Arsheed were hostile or not ; to which the latter replied, after endeavouring in vain to procure the person of Aly, that he was not come hostilely, but was about to return, which he forthwith did : and the Bambareen sultan, havinsr received from Aly two beautiful renegade vu'gins, was so much flattered with the present, that he promised him any thing that he should ask ; whereupon, he requested permission to go to Timbuctoo, and to settle there with his numerous followers ; which being granted, he pro-