him: and we must therefore be content to receive this part
of his . story on his own credit alone, illustrated by such
indirect corroborations as we may be enabled to glean from
other sources.
This unsupported part of Adams's story extends, it will
be seen, from the Douar to which he was first conveyed
from the coast, until his arrival at El Kabla; occupying a
period of fifteen or sixteen months;—a period which the
Narrative fills up with the expedition to Soudenny,—the
journey to, and residence at, Tombuctoo,—and the return
through Taudenny across the Desert to Woled D’leim and
which the latter has given in the first page of this Narrative. The following is
Mr. Dupuis1 memorandum on the subject.
H a r r i s o n , Capt. died immediately after the wreck.
Nicholas, Seaman.
Newsham, ditto, i Jtansomed three months after the wreck.
Nelson, ditto, j
Dolbie, M ate , died a t W ed -N o o n in 1813.
Rose, (alias Adams), ransomed ditto
Clark, black seaman, d itto , - 1814.
Davison, seaman, 1 Renagades at Wed-Noon, but liberated in 1814.
Williams, boy, 3 &
Matthews, a n old man, rep o rted to hav e died in th e Desert.
Recapitulation, *J liberated,
3 d ead,
1 unaccounted for,
1 1 Total number stated by Adams; of whom Stephens alone,
.(whom he says he left at Woled Dleim,) was never heard of by Mr. Dupuis,
El Kabla. We do not deem it necessary to extend our
examination to the whole of these journeys, because if we
shall be fortunate enough to satisfy the Reader that Adams
is entitled to credit as far as Tombuctoo, we conceive that
no doubt can be raised respecting his journey from thence
to El Kabla.
We have already entered so fully into the question of the
probability of the expedition to Soudenny, in Note 7, p. 91»
that the reader would hardly excuse as for repeating in this
place the arguments which were there adduced in support of
it. We shall therefore confine our remarks to the journey
from thence to Tombuctoo.
But before we enter upon this examination, we are anxious
to caution our readers against suspecting us of setting
up any pretensions to minute accuracy, either in the situation
which we have assigned to Soudenny in the Note in
question, or in any positions of places in the map adjusted
from data necessarily so vague as those afforded by Adams:
neither must it be forgotten on the other hand, that the precise
situations of the places which we have used as the
standards of his accuracy, are rather assumed than proved.
There may be errors in both cases : and in the latter, it is
at least as probable that such errors may contribute to
increase the apparent inaccuracy of Adams's positions, as
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