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344 TRAVE.LS IN AFRICA.the gullet;given it by reason of a part of its course being" fotcedtbrough a narrow rocky pass in a mountain, or between two mountain8~It overflows annually by the thawing of the snows ofAtlas, enrichingthé lands which border it; and this Îl).undation is celebrated by thenatives with great rejoicing, music, and dancing.Such i8 the aecount of officersand other8, observing and commum..cati"fé men, who have visited and resided there on business or duty.They added, in their communications \vHhus,that the mountainousregion (Atlas) between the plains of Morocco. :and Tatilet, tô a vast ex..tent, was ihtenselycold ; and that south of this, but far in the interio1'",was an independentnation, a very brave people, honorificaHy, or nic'"natned by the Moors, The Sons of Lions, who are not black, and whosereligion is idolatry.'~hey live by hunting wild animaIs, and on themilk of their cameI8, of which .they have great numbers, not tilling theearth.for distinction.They go naked, save à piece of bIne clotl1 worn by the chief