approach ; moreover, I have reason to believe, that this coast is la d down too far to the eastward in all our maps. T h e Arabs going nearly in a state o f nature, wearing nothing but a cloth or rag to cover their nakedness, immediately strip their unhappy victims, and march them up the country barefooted, like themselves. The feet o f Europeans, from their not being accustomed, like the Arabs, to this mode o f travelling, soon begin to swell with the heat o f the burning sand over w h ich they pass; the Arab considering on ly his booty,does not g iv e himself the trouble to enquire into the cause o f this, but abstemious and unexhausted himself, he conceives his unfortunate captive will, b y dint o f fatigue and travelling, become so too. In these inarches the Europeans suffer the pains of fatigue and hunger in a most dreadful degree; for the Arab will go 50 miles a day without tasting food, and at night will content himself with a little barley meal mixed with cold water : miserable fare fo r an English seaman, who (to use the term that is app lied to the richest men among the Arabs) eats meat every day. T h e y carry the Christian captives about the Desert, to the different markets to sell them, for they ve ry soon discover that their habits o f life render them altogether unserviceable, or v e ry inferior to the black slaves, which they procure from Tim- buctoo. A fte r travelling three days to one market, five to another, nay sometimes fourteen, they at length become objects o f commercial speculation, and the itinerant Jew traders, who wander about from Wedinoon to sell theirwares, find means to barter for them tobacco, salt, a cloth garment, or any other thing, ju s t as a combination o f circumstances may offer, and then return to Wedinoon with the purchase. I f the Jew ha ve a correspondent at Mogodor, he writes to him, that a ship had been wrecked, mentioning the flag or nation she belonged to, and requests him to inform the agent, or consul, o f the nation o f which the captain is a subject; in the mean time flattering the poor men, that they w ill shortly be liberated and sent to Mogodor, where they w ill meet their countrymen : a. long and tedious servitude, however, generally follows, for want of a regular fund at Mogodor for the redemption o f these people. T h e agent can do nothing but w rite to the consul-general at T an g ie r; this takes up nearly a month, before an answer is received, and the merchants at Mogodor being so little protected by their respectiv e governments, and having various immediate uses for their money, are v e ry unwilling to ad vance it for the European interest o f five per c e n t .: so that the time lost in writing to the government o f the country to whom the unfortunate captives belong, the necessity o f procuring the money for their purchase previous to their emancipation, and various other circumstances, form impediments to their liberation. Sometimes, after being e x changed several times from one owner to another, they find themselves in the inmost recesses o f the desert, their patience is exhausted, the tardiness and supineness o f diplomacy effaces a ll hope, and after producing despondency, they are at length, under promises o f good treatment, induced to abjure Christianity, and accordingly become Mooselmin ; after which their fate is sealed, and they terminate their miserable existence, rendered insupportable b y a chain o f calamities, in the Desert, to the disgrace o f Christendom, and the nation under whose colours they navigated. I f the interest o f the munificent bequest o f Mr. Thomas Eetton, (who himself experienced during N N
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