Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-08-11

YER comes from the right hand. =.
flows towards the left; it's here So : WV :"
that gun would not take effect acr 'e
il. In tho language Of the COUNT, I
bears the name OF lssa. There ~
many boats upon it, which are cbies'S
employed in trading to Jlanie. n:
BANNED had no doubt that they mirS,
prrceee downwards to Kaskra and P S
mac. He was always taught 10 belirvs
he says, that the Nile of Soudan sni
The Nile of Egypt are the same river y
MIR Richie collected much more IN
formation. particularly from two otLa,
Intelligent Africans, on The subject al
tending to establish tie general r,et
mentioned. IN the course of the ART
Gle, reference is made by the rcyiew@,
to the testimony of HE late Mr.. Bnr,s
hardt, by whose researches, an accom-, {
ot an Arab traveller has hcer discovn, |
ed whose works bid (air TO tb,ns
much geographical light upon the h
therto unkno"n regions of the Arr;c.,
continent, The following account Isl
this man is taken from Mr.. BurcIbart
/" Ibn Batouta is perhaps the greatss,
land traveller who ever wrote his f.,
sels. lie was a native of Tangier, and
travelled from the year loe4, to 1874
being thirty years. In The course Of
that time he several times traversed
Egypt. Syria, Arabia, Persia, the coast
of the Rid Sea, and the eastern Coast
of Africa. He then visited Bokhan
Balk. Samarande, Kabul, India and
China. Taking shipping he landed on
several of the Indian Islands. visited
the Maldives, and the coast of MaLbar
crossed the mountains Of Thibet, ira
versed India, aud then embarked for
Java. From this island he revisited
China, and returned by Calicut, Ye
men. Bagdad, and Damascus to Cairo.
Again he set ont to perform the Hadi
and on his return visited the provinces
of Spain. Tie next proceeded to the
capital of Morocco, and thence to Sedi.
iesmassa here the vicinity of the king.
doms of Soudan tempted the curiosity
of this interchangeable traveller. In 1852
lie crossed the desert with the slave
traders to Taghary, 25 days journey
from sedjelmassa, the houses of which
were built of salt stone, and covered
with cameis' skins. From this place
he crossed sandy glitfering plain
without water or trees, where no foot
steps would remain.
After journey of twenty days over
this tracklrss desert, he reached Aba
Lsteau (probably the Wallet of Park
tie first town of Soudan and here
were few date trees and watermelOE;
F." the womcr are beautiful the son Of
the sister inherits to the exclusion Of
the true son ;" custom, which he saw
no whese else, except among the Pagan
Hindoos of Malabar. This is true Of
the Mars Of MaIabar 10 this day .---
From Eiwelaton, ten days brought him
to the town of Taghara, an extensive
place inhabited by negro traders, did
a few white people of the here'ical
creed Of Byadiia- Christians or Jews
Leaving this he came to karseckba'
situated ON the bank of the Nile, which
runs from thence to Kahara, and Saga
or Zsgha. Aarsekha is in all prOOa'
bility the Sego of Park.
Ion Eatouta now proceeds to Sla@
the course of the Nile from the lniOF'
nation which he obtained at KaOara'
The Nile, he says. flows to TimbaCtGo'
thence to XXX or kuka, thence to lIe
town of Null, the last place within tI0
kingdom of Null; thence to iu"L luz
principal seat Of the Negro govern
mcnt, and which no white person can
approach.--From Yuwi it flows lR'o
the country of the Nubians, who a''
Christians, and onward to Donk"Ia
(DondoIa) their chief city; thence ~
Jenadal (the second cataracD the lass
place in the country of the blacks, anu
the first of the province of Escoan 10
suan) in Upper Egypt. a.,
IN. Z. ID. .adS'