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TIMBUCTOO. Ill

Oumilyain, who had just returned from Mecca;
he stated that he had made acquaintance with the
^tot^t'l British agent at Cosseir, and gave him a letter of
, the rain, ths ?^ recommendation to his father, who was at Kina.
110tod Having asked me why it was that the English

& rad up to & always travelled so far from their home, I answered

that they were a very curious people, and desired if
it were possible to see every part of the world. I
then asked him of what country he was, and he
K EfflttB toll told me that he came from the neighbourhood of
mid not tellm, Timbuctoo, where he had been in the habit of
toitttkM going every week to the fair; he added that a
■afoantd'itfe great many caravans came there from Mecca and
^i. ^IijIi from Tunis, and that the merchants of those two
JiHuikii1 places were the wealthiest of all who visited
, i-Luui Timbuctoo.

,. a- j. The safest and the easiest way to this city is

first to 2:0 to Courtoufan, where companions for t<~J$hr
the journey may always be met with, and where
the people are very affable and hospitable. He
told me that there was not a finer or more fertile
country in Africa than that of Barbary, which he
called Vad6 Ilgarb, which means the west of
Africa. Egypt, he added, was nothing in com-

parison with Timbuctoo; he was preparing to
-jlfitW' return there, taking Dongola and Courtoufan in

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