FOOTNOTES:
[1] Barth’s Travels, vols. ii. and iv., Appendices V. and IX.
[2] Barth’s Travels, vol. iv. p. 415.
[3] Barth’s Travels, vol. iv., Appendix IX., p. 624.
[4] A Geographical and Commercial View of Northern and Central Africa.
[5] The following is the Duchess of Devonshire’s version of the above incident:—
“The loud wind roared, the rain fell fast,
The white man yielded to the blast;
He sat him down beneath a tree,
For weary, sad, and faint was he,
And ah, no wife, no mother’s care
For him the milk or corn prepare.