I agreed to accept them, and she pulled off her nose-rings and ear-rings, all her neck-chains, with their ornaments, and the bracelets from her wrists and ankles, and gave them to me in exchange for it.

These ornaments would weigh more than a pound, and were made of solid gold at Timbuctoo.

I kept them through the whole of the journey afterwards, and carried them to my wife, who now wears a part of them." "Timbuctoo carries on a great trade with all the caravans that come from Morocco, and the shores of the Mediterranean sea.

From Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, &c.

are brought all kinds of cloth, iron, salt, muskets, powder and lead swords or scimitars, tobacco, opium, spices and perfumes, amber beads, and other trinkets, with a few more articles.