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Ed from the climate and the irritation of his own mind. The Arabs
of Sahara are the carriers of merchandize throughout North Africa, and
the Moors are in the constant habit of selling 265
gum to the French on the Senegal. The French say they are perfidious;
but they give no proof
of it that
I have seen. I have met with a French traveller, who owns that his
countrymen deceive them either in the weight or measure of the gum
they purchase. Bruce found a friend in every Moorish merchant, and
integrity and intelligence in all. And where should these qualities be
found in a country like the interior of Africa,
in which learning has no place but among merchants? So much for the
proposed carriers of English goods to Timbuctoo. Now for the road. The
fertile parts of Africa are hot and humid, unwholesome and dangerous;
and the kings are often at war with each

other. Park experienced both these evils; and the wonder
was, not so much that he perished on his second journey, as that he
returned from his first. The Desert is dry and heathful. It is
sprinkled with fertile spots, which form a succession of kno