An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa

by active 1820 Abd Salam Shabeeny

"The Elwah [³⁰³]Elgarbie is inhabited by the Maggrebee Arabs. My late friend, Muley Abd Salam, elder brother to Muley Soliman, the reigning Emperor of Marocco, had a very large estate in this Wah, called Santariah. In the 1793d year of the Christian era, he sent his friend and servant Alkaid Muhammed ben Abd Saddack, late governor of Mogodor, to effect the sale of this estate. He was absent on this embassy two years and three months. [³⁰⁴]

"Sheb is the Arabic for alum, the correct orthography is Shib. [³⁰⁵]

"Marybucks should be Marabet, i.e. Priests, or Holy Muhamedans. [³⁰⁶]

"The primitive plough is used in all the African countries inhabited by the Arabs, or their descendants; the negroes, however, use the hoe." [³⁰⁷]

Footnote 300:[ (return) ] Vide Leyden's Africa, p. 312.

Footnote 301:[ (return) ] Ibid, p. 334.

Footnote 302:[ (return) ] Ibid, p. 398.

Footnote 303:[ (return) ] Let the African traveller be careful to pronounce these g's guttural خ

Footnote 304:[ (return) ] Ibid, p. 399.

Footnote 305:[ (return) ] Ibid. ibid.