Notes Taken During Travels in Africa Author:John Davidson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: J. L. Cox and sons Subjects: Morocco History / Africa / General History / Africa / North Travel / Africa / General Travel / Africa / Morocco Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may b... more »e typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: [Extracted from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London: -- pp. 100 -- 110. Vol. 6th.] " My name is Abu Bekr es siddik : my birth place is Tumbut. I was educated ii the town of Jenneh (Genneh), and fully instructed in reading and construing the Koran, -- but in the interpretation of it by the help of commentaries. This was [done] in the city of Ghonah, where there are many learned men ['ulema], who are not natives of one place, but each of them, having quitted his own country, has come and settled there. The names of these sayyids who dwelt in the city of Ghonah were as follows: -- 'Abd-Allah ibn-al Hajj ; Mohammed Watarawi; Mohammed al Mustafa ; Fatik, the white [man] [al abyad]; Sheikh 'Abdal-kadir, Sankari, from the land of Futah Jallo ; Ibrahim ibn Yusuf, from the land of Futah Toro; Ibrahim ibn Abi'-l Hasan, from Silla by descent, but born at J« less