However this may be, Captain Lyon asserts, that he never could find any one able to point out the passage authorizing these commercial falsehoods.
The lower classes work neatly in leather; they weave a few coarse barracans, and make iron-work in a solid, though clumsy manner.

One or two work in gold and silver with much skill, considering the badness of their tools, and every man is capable of acting as a carpenter or mason; the wood being that of the date tree, and the houses being built of mud, very little elegance or skill is necessary.

Much deference is paid to the artists in leather or metals, who are called, _par excellence, sta,_ or master, as leather-master, iron-master, &c.
From the constant communication with Bornou and Soudan, the languages of both these countries are generally spoken, and many of their words are introduced into the Arabic.

The family slaves and their children by their masters, constantly speak the language of the country, whence they originally come.

Their writing is in the Mogrebyn character, which is used, as is supposed by Captain Lyon, universally in western Africa, and differs much from that of the east.