L I S T O F P L A T E S . No. Pa«e 25. Fishing Boats on the River Shary . . . . 229 26. River Shary, from the Walls o f Kussery . . . . 285 2 7 . Vignette, Negresses Pounding Corn . . . . . 247 28. A Loggun Lady—Funha o f Maffatai— Abdelahi o f Mandara . . 259 29. Hager Teous, or the Footstool o f Noah . . * 261 30. Sketch o f the Lake Tchad . . . . . . 266 81. Lancers o f the Sultan o f Begharmi . . . . . 279 32. Manner o f Fishing on the River Yeou . . . . . 284 38. Encampment near Woodie . . . . . . 289 34. Ghirza, south face o f Building . . . . • 305 35. Frieze on do. • • • • ■ ' 36. Town of Sangeia, in Houssa . . . . 36 37. Natives o f Soudan . . . . . . . 54 38. Vignette, Plan o f the Town o f Kano . . • • - 56 3 9 . A Reduction o f Bello’s Map o f Central Africa . . . 109 40. Appendix—Fennecus Cerdo . . . . . . 183 4 1__42__43. Arms and Armour of Central Africa, brought home by Major Denham,— Three Plates. 44. General Map o f the Routes o f the Travellers. R E C E N T D ISC O V E R IE S IN A F R I C A . CHAPTER I. FROM MOURZUK TO KOUKA IN BORNOU. O n the evening of the 29th of November we left Mourzuk, accompanied by nearly all those of the town, who could muster a horse: the camels had moved early in the day, and at Zezow we found the tents pitched—there are here merely a few huts. From Zezow to Traghan there is a good high road, with frequent incrustations of salt, and we arrived there before noon. I t is a clean walled town, one of the best of one hundred and nine, of which Fezzan is said to boast. Traghan was formerly as rich as Mourzuk, and was the capital and residence of a^sultaifSvho governed the eastern part of Fezzan, whose castle, in ruins, may still be seen. A maraboot, of great sanctity, is the principal’person in Traghan, as his father was before him. During the reign of the present bashaw's father, when the Arab troops appeared before the town, the then maraboot and chief went out to meet them; and, from his own stores, paid sixty thousand dollars to prevent the property of his townspeople from being plundered. They make carpets here B
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