CHAPTER II.
U pon their arrival at Tombuctoo, the whole party was
immediately taken before the King, who ordered the Moors
into prison, but treated Adams and the Portuguese boy as
curiosities; taking them to his house, where they remained
during their residence at Tombuctoo.
Tor some time after their arrival, the Queen and her
female attendants used to sit and look at Adams and his
companion for hours together. She treated them with great
kindness, and at the first interview offered them some
bread baked under ashes.
The King and Queen, the former of whom was named
Woollo, the latter Fatima, (8) were very old grey-headed
people. The Queen was extremely fat. tier dress was of
blue nankeen, edged with gold lace round the bosom and
on the shoulder, and having a belt or stripe of the same
material half way down the dress, which came only a few
inches below the knees. The dress of the other females of
Tombuctoo, though less ornamented than thatol the Queen,
was in the same short fashion; so that as they wore no