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| Introduction | [1] |
| Plan of the Association | [2] |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Proceedings of the Association, fromthe Time of its Establishment, to that of the Departure of Mr.Ledyard | [13] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Mr. Ledyard’sArrival at Cairo. — His Remarks on the Inhabitants, &c. —His Death and Character | [19] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Arrival of Mr. Lucas at Tripoli. — His Reception by the Bashaw. —His Journey to Mesurata with the Shereefs Fouwad and Imhammed. —His Mode of obtaining from the latter an Account of his Travels inthe Interior Countries of Africa. — His Return to England | [43] |
| INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER IV. | |
| The Shereef Imhammed’s Informationconfirmed by the Governor of Mesurata and Ben Alli the Moor | [75] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Rout from Mesurata. — Enumeration ofthe principal Towns of Fezzan. — Account of its Climate andprincipal Productions. — Description of the Manners, Religion, andGovernment of its People — Their Revenue, Administration ofJustice, and Military Force | [81] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Mode of Travelling in Africa | [87] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| General Remarks on the Empires ofBornou and Cashna. — Rout from Mourzouk to Bornou. — Climate ofBornou. — Complexion, Dress, and Food of the Inhabitants — TheirMode of Building — Their Language, Government, Military Force,Manners, and Trade | [125] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Rout from Mourzouk to Cashna. —Boundaries of the Empire. — Its Language, Currency, and Trade | [161] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Countries South of the Niger | [173] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| General View of the Trade from Fezzanto Tripoli, Bornou, Cashna, and the Countries on the South of theNiger | [181] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Rout from Mourzouk to Grand Cairo,according to Hadgee Abdalah Benmileitan, the present Governor ofMesurata | [193] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Conclusions suggested by thepreceding Narrative | [199] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Construction of the Map ofAfrica | [211] |
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INTRODUCTION.
The Narrative of the Proceedings of the Society that was formed in the year 1788, for the purpose of Promoting the Discovery of the Inland Districts of Africa, was written, at the request of his Colleagues, by one of the Members of the Committee of that Association; and is now printed at the desire, and for the use of the Society: but as it may also be read by persons unacquainted with the Origin and Object of the Undertaking to which it relates, the following Paper, as descriptive of both, is republished for their information.
PLAN
OF THE
ASSOCIATION.
Of the objects of inquiry which engage our attention the most, there are none, perhaps, that so much excite continued curiosity, from childhood to age; none that the learned and unlearned so equally wish to investigate, as the nature and history of those parts of the world, which have not, to our knowledge, been hitherto explored. To this desire the Voyages of the late Captain Cook have so far afforded gratification, that nothing worthy of research by Sea, the Poles themselves excepted, remains to be examined; but by Land, the objects of Discovery are still so vast, as to include at least a third of the habitable surface of the earth: for much of Asia, a still larger proportion of America, and almost the whole of Africa, are unvisited and unknown.