Blowers, species of whale, notice of, 250.
Bosjesmans, their awkward personal appearance, cruel-
ty, great invention, kraals, dress, &c. 282-4.

Boujeiah, port of, 39.

Boulac, the port of Grand Cairo, 58.

Bride, manner of showing her attachment to her in-
tended husband, 341.

Bulama, attempt to establish a colony at, 345.

Caffres, their character, 8.

C.

Cairo, Grand, description of, with the objects adjacent,
and some account of the manners of the inhabitants,
58 to 75.

Camels, at Dar Fur, called Ships of the Land, 110.
Curious manner of riding upon them, caravan, &c.

136.

Camel stealers, affecting incident connected with,
which occurred to Mr. Middleton in the barren de-
sert, 225-7.

Cape of Good Hope, voyage to, 247.

View of the
northern division of the peninsula of, 295.

1

Cape Town, its situation and characteristic features
described, 251.

Cape Bon, 37.

Ca-poudia, a narrow strip of land, on which are
the ruins of the city built by the Emperor Justinian,
41.

Carthage, once the rival of Rome, only marked by a
few ruins, 39.

Cascade, the Great, magnificent prospect at, 243-4.
Ceremony of naming a child, curious one among the
Mandingoes, 329.

Cirta, or Constantina, its situation and remarkable fea-
tures, 37, 38.

Cobbe, capital of the kingdom of Dar Fur, 104.

Colleges at Fez, 29.

Compass mountain, 276.

Coomb Ombo, crocodiles, &c. 130.

Cooscoosoo, a favourite dish with the Moors, how it is
made, 25.

R

Coptic convents, 55.

Copts, original inhabitants of Egypt, 64.
Corsairs, their piracies, 19.

Croix, St. town of, 11.

Cosseir, town of, on the Red Sea, 136.

Correva, 190.

Cubba-beesh, a plundering tribe, 101.
Cubcabia, town of, 104.

D.

Dandera, celebrated ruins at, 123—4.

Dar Fur, picture of the country, inhabitants, buildings,
&c. 102 to 118.

Dar Dohha, pass of, 203.

Deana, specimen of the rudeness of the Moors, 313.
Debelen, Dahalac, 149-51.

Delta island, 55.

Delicacy of shape, in women, despised in Morocco, and
other particulars of the manners of the Moorish la-
dies detailed, 35.

Demar, the residence of a saint believed to work mi-
racles, 220.

Dembea, 177.

Demoiselle, an elegant species of crane, found on the
plains of Nabal, 40.

Dender river, Pagan tribes at, 212.

Dey of Algiers, manner of his election. His reign ge-
nerally commenced by putting those to death who
opposed his election, 34.

Ealand, the, compared with the gnoo, singular species

of animals, 281.

Eclipse, how looked upon by Negroes, 330.

Egg ovens, method of hatching chickens, in ovens, in
Egypt, 74.

Elephants, 154.

teeth, mode of separating them from the
head, 206.

Elephants river, majestic aspect of the country through

which it runs, 291.

El-Gourni, statues, &c. at, 125.
El-Har, a fruitful country, 141.
Emfras, 191

Emeralds, mountain of, 1367. Voyage to the island
in which it is situated, difficulties of the voyage, 138.
Emperor of Morocco's palace described, 15.

Every man allowed to have four wives, 21.

Employments of Mr. Middleton and Sancho whilst in
slavery, 9.

Enchanted baths, 38.
Engaldi, 208.

Esné, the ancient Latopolis, Edfu, &c. 129.
Euphorbia, a species of plant that yields milk in the
desert,

Execution at Dar Fur, 114.

F.

Feloops, a wild unsociable race of people, 296~8.
Fez, country and city described, 27-9.

New, its situation, &c. 29.

Fish river, the boundary between the colony at the
Cape of Good Hope and the Kaffres, 268.

Flamingo, a curious animal found at the Cape of Good
Hope, whose wings are used as fans, 255.

Flying fish, their remarkable properties, 247-8.
Foosht, 148.

France and Bourbon, isles of, visited and described,
236 to 247.

Fremona, Jesuits convent at, 163.

Funeral processions of the Algerines, 35.

Funchall, town of, in the island of Teneriffe, 353.

Funninghedy, affecting event at, 311, 12.

Fur, entrance to the kingdom of, 102.
Furshout, Franciscan convent at, 124.

G.

Gaba, granite pillars, of great beauty near it, 40.
Galla, tribes of, 199. Their manners, 200.

Galley fish, their luminous appearance.
their extreme beauty, 249, 250.

Golden fish,

Garigana, travellers encamp at it, 210.
Gawa, temple at, 122.

Gebel Rumlie, mountain of, 99.
Geesh, mountain of, 197.

Gibbainy, remarkable for its curious remains of anti-
quity. The ancient city of Meroe, 220.

Gidid, remarkable for its inhospitality, 105.

Glimi, city of, 11.

Girgé, 12%.

Girbas, water bags 208.

Gnoo, a singular animal, said to be the swiftest that
scours the plains of Africa, 280.

Gold washing, mode of performing this operation, 332,
333.
Gojam, 177.
Gomara, 190.

Gondar, the capital of Abyssinia, 172-5. Reception
of the travellers at, 173. Customs at the court of,
and habits of the people, 179-90.

Gorgora, peninsula of, 201.

Goutto, territory of, 196.

Government of Morocco, 19.

Graaf Reynet, return to, storm at, 285.

Gungadi, brief notice of, 307.

Guangue river, 207.

H.

Halfaia, land about it watered by wheels turned by ox-
en, 218.

Hamamet, or the city of Wild Pigeons, 40.

Hamra, plain of, porphyry found there, 133.

Harutch, mountainous district, 93.

Hauza, town of, 167.

Hazorta, tribe of, 154,

Heliopolis, the city dedicated to the sun, 83.
Hemara, village of, locusts considered a dainty there,

95.

Hippopotami, 191.

Home, poetical description of, 150.

Hottentot people, their good qualities, 266. Their
dress and manners, 267, 8.

Hottentot slaves, their state more deplorable than those

in the West Indies, 266.

Hottentot river, 260.

Hottentot town, 261.

Houses of the Moors of Morocco described, 20. Habits
of the people, 21.

Hyenas, some particulars respectiug them, 103, 167,
168.

Introduction, 1.

I.

Itinerant bards among the Negroes, 331.
Ivory, trade in, mode of obtaining it, 334.

Jackals, 104

J.

Jallonka wilderness, entry of, 338.

Jarra, a considerable town in the kingdom of Ludamar,
Public feast at, 317.

312.

Jidda, its wealth and traffic, treatment experienced by
the travellers at that place, 143, 144

Jillifree, town of, on the northern bank of the river
Gambia. Travellers arrive at it, 296.

Joag, the capital of the kingdom of Kaajaga, brief view
of, 306.

Journey from Gondar to the Source of the Nile, 190.
Journey from Grand Cairo to the western countries of
Africa, 84

Jupiter Ammon, temple of, 89

Kaajaga, kingdom of, 306.

K.

Kabba, town of, butter made from a tree there, 320.
Kabyles, a savage tribe, who live in caves on the
banks of the Great River, 37

Kaffres, stations of, their characteristic features, dress,
customs, hospitality, 269, 270. Conflagration of