[40] Ounce of gold is here meant.
[41] Nigritia, or the black countries on both sides of the Niger.
[42] Vid. Prosper Alpin. cap. 27. page 44. tom. 2.
[43] We had seen this practised too by the Agows at the source of the Nile.
[44] A machine for raising water from the Nile, otherwise called the Persian wheel.
[45] Ptol. Geograph. lib. iv. cap. 8.
[46] Kebsh, a sheep; pl. Cubba-beesh, sheep.
[47] The farm where he kept the flocks belonging to himself.
[48] De. orig. flum. cap. xvi. p. 57.
[49] Plin. lib. vi. c. 30.