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338 TRAVELS IN AFRICA.pearance as what he is suffices; it is considered a joint caU upon thesister virtues, Peace as wellas Charity ~ truce takes place during bisstay, (he is the bird of happy omen,) and heis supplied withprovisionswhen he thinks proper to pursue his journey.we may presume, cry with pious Richard,Cf •••••• Now,'Vhereupon the parties,Doctors, to our holy work again."The remains of Christianity, l'uins of conventsand,of cells, areyet extant,as it is said. But is it conceivable that Vandal conquest couldhave reached, or aoy eupidity haveexcited, thus far? If the learnedbe, as IS the case, constantly misled on such points, what must the effectof appearances amount to on the shallow and ignorant?Thesevestiges are of the most remote antiquity, possibly ; and as to the allegedspurious Christiauity, it may be a confusion of ideas derived from theestablishment here of the creed of Moseilama, the qontemporary ofMobommed, which denies the infallihility of the latter, as weIL as thedivine spirit in the family descent of the Xerifis, and at the head ofwhich belief is its independent Imaun, resideot near Cape N um, in afertile and well.watered district. The diffusion of this term Num, inGuaudnum, river; Vellidi N um, people; and other instances, militatesagainst the Portuguese derivation affixed in the style of Swift to thispart of the coast. Guaud is Arabic, oot endemial. Num is rooted inthe S_cythian, and ever çonveys a sacred import. Brisson passed severaldays in the city of Guaudnum ~and his aecount is of interest, as it coïncidesidenticaHy, in particulars, witb what the British embassy wasenabled to pick up as ta the people of theinterior part ofthis chain, atthe same period at which Brisson ",rites; both in their coincidenceestablishing the faet of the 9rigiual and primitive state of manners,which pervade throughout, and which seem to depict therftldiments of