The Litchfield County post., 1828-11-06
From the N. Y. Journal Of Commerce.
PRINCE ABDUL RAHAHMAM.

The writer who communicated the death
Of Col. Denham, Governor of Sierra Lee
one, in May last, laments, in strong terms,
she presidential climate ofthat place. To
what cause it can be attributed he knows
not, hut so it is; there is no place in the
world more emphatically marked as "the
grave of the white man." Still the Brit
ish government persists in maintaining that
post, and thong so many fall victims to the
pestilence every year, such has been the
effort on the part of the British Govern
ment, that the colony, we believe, contn-
ues TO grow, and makes, on the whole, d
fair show of prosperity. II is quite mani
fest that all this expense of property and
Of life is not incurred by Great Britain
without prospect of final compensation.
A road has lately been constructed from
Sierra Leone. reaching $50 miles INFO the
anterior, the design of which is without a
doubt to facilitate commercial intercourse
With the natives.
Thein,erior Of Africa along the Niger.
and between the Niger and the desert is
still unexplored. But we have now among
us native Prince of Timbuctoo, one who
received his education in that mysterious
city, aud is of course able to give US more
authentic accounts of that place than have
ever been published. He describes it as
large walled city, probably as large as N.
York, and place of great business. OF
this,we have before had evidences, perhaps,
as it has long been known that the enor-
NOUS caravans crossing Africa in various
directions are most of them destined for,
or returning from city called Timbuctoo.
According to the account given by Abdul
Rahaman, Timbuctoo is also the seat of a
powerful king, who holds great number
Of cities and territories tributary to his gov
ernment. This we are told by the grand
son of the King himself, and we are furth-
or told how these cities and territories are
governed, and what branches of the king's
family are placed over each. Timbuctoo
is further described as place Of great bu-
siness and power, but as having at least, a
shadow Of civilization. Here is q Prince
who for years attended school where at
least 200 scholars we're taught. There he
learned some rude notions Of Geography,
and Astronomy, and little Of Arithme-
tic. He also learned to read the Koran
in Arabic and now he will read in that
language with fusncy, and write it with ac-
curacy and precision, as the experiment
has abundantly proved. He also describes
Ti,nbuctoo as having various other ipslitu-
lions, never existing in savage and seldom
in barbarors countries. The great stretch
Of Timbuctoo and the Atlantic he has ira
versed again and again, first in the train of
his father, and afterwards, part of it as a
head warrior against the Hebroos. The
country he describes as extremely fertile
in most Of the provinces, and mentions by
name and describes chain of walled tow ms
at no great intervals through the whole dis
lance. Gold and ivory It's well known a.
bound in that region, but the productions
ofthe soil are probably of greater valus,or
will be when the natives have suficien. ly
learned their worth to engage in their Gull
tivation. Coffee we are told, grows spon-
taneously in the woods, and is neglected
as thing Of no use. Prince was surpris-
ed to see the pains taken by some of the
citizens, to grow the article in Natchsz.--