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i Speaking lightly of man and w,.h-
ing to convey his maximum of contend.
luous feeling about him, he said. HE is
ieilow, now, that would send his pIate
up twice for soup.'
- being supposed that he once failed
10 matrimonial speculation. somebody
condoied with him upon which he
smneo, with an air of better KNOWLEDGE
on mat point, and said, with sort Of
nolnerent feel of his neckcloth, Why.
slf' the truth is, | bad great reluctance
~ Gutung the connection; but what
eo1'd DO (Here he looked deplorine
ano conclosiEe.) Sir, discovered that
'he wretch positively ate cabbage
when he went visiting, he is report-
ed to have taken with him an elaborate
dressing apparatus, including silver
oasin For said he, it is impossible
to spit iu clay
va reference being made to him as To-
what sum would be sufficient 10 meet
'he annual expenditure for clothes he
said, that with modern degree of
prudence and economy, he thought it
might be managed for eight hundred
per annum'
lie told friend that he was reform.
ing bis way of life. For instance said
ne, sup early; take a-a-little lob
stef, and apricot puff, OF so, and some
our6t campalgne. about twelve +; and nv
man gels me TO bed by three,o
lfrom the London Monthly Magazine
Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Nor,h-
ern and Central Africa, in the wears 1900
1893, and 1924, by Major Denham. Cant
ClaPperton, and the late DR.. Oudney, &c.
we need not remind our readers that
repeated misforiunes attendant upon on.
lerprIses for exploring The interior Of
N0fthern Africa from the side of the
Atlantic, had at length suggested the
trial OF an expedition from the East
ward: conducted under the protection of
the Pasha of Tripoli, and pushed a.
cross the Sahara, or great Desert
With this preface, it will be enough 10
quote the first sentence of Major Den
hams narrative, 10 order to convey an
account OF: the origin and commence
ment OF the particular expedition now
to be referred 10. Previous to anv
knowledge had received of the i.,4-:-
lions = IN of His Majesty,s 9; M n!, to
and cap!rayon, | had volunteered nv
-ssTVices 10 Lord Bathurst 10 proceed 10
1lmbuctoo, by nearly the same route
which MAJOR Laing is now pursuing. 4
learnt In reply, that an expedition had
zen Planned and that Doctor Oudnav
.'hu Lheu'enant CiappertUu, ,o~.,,-r ~
navy, were appointed; and with these
gentlemen, by the kindness of Lord
Bathurst. was, at my request, ascot
ated.' Major Denham adds, that TO
Colonel Warrington, His Majesty's Con-
sui at Tripoli, are in a great degree
owing the origin and success of the late
mission; he stated broadly to the gov.
eminent at home, that the road from
Tripoli to Bornou was as open as that
from London 10 Edinburgh; which,
with small allowance for Oriental hy-
perbole, was found to be true.'
The general features of African
scenery, aud also of African manners.
are each of them comparatively famil-
lar. The Moors or settled Arabs of
Tripoli, with their slaves, their serag-
lios, and their mosques; the Arabs of
the Desert, with their camels and their
dromedaries, their hospitality and their
robberies the Desert itself, with its
sand-hills, IFS wells, IFS thirsty and ex-
piriEg travellers, and IFS whitened skel.
eions of men and camels on the tracks
the fertility of the African soil, its
Wild and tame animals-all these things
are already so much in the possession
of the reader, that we shall, passing o.
yer the first hundred pages of this work,
enter al once, with our travellers, the
Town Of the Sheikh of Baruoo (tor Bar
moo or Barnooh, is the real name of the
country, though Frenchifed into Bor-
nou.) Our travellers had now travers-
ed the Great Desert-the sands of
twelve hundred miles; and it was only
on the 18th of February, 1928, that
they found themselves approaching the
seat Of the Capital of Barnoo.
| February II. This was to us q
momentous day, and it seemed to be
equally SO TO our conductors. Not
withstandiug all the difficulties that had
presented themselves at the various
stages of our journey, we were at last
within a few short miles of our des:in-
alton; were about to become acquaint-
ed with a people who had never seen,
or scarcely heard of a. European; and
to tread on ground, the knowledge and
true situation of which had hitherto
been wholly unknown. These ideas Of
course excited no common sensations I;
and could scarcely be unaccompanied
! by strong hopes of our labors being