This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ... inhabitants of the part of Mauritania, called the Territory of Zahara-Suz, have been, and are almost wholy of pure Arabian descent. It therefore will not be wondered at that they who so pertinaciously adhere to ancient habits, differ so widely as they do in their manners, customs, and even in religious toleration from the present Moors and the other Saracen descendants of the neighbouring states. MANNERS--CUSTOMS--RELIGION--RECREATION--FORM OF GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE--HOSPITALITY--MILITARY FORCE, AND COSTUME OF THE NATIVES. The people of this territory, living in independence, indulge in luxuries, are particular in dressing well, and use many expensive European commodities. At Wedinoon a great quantity of gold, gold-dust, and ivory is bought and sold, tobacco, wool, cotton, gums, oils, and corn, an produced here in considerable abundance. They carry on a constant and advantageous commercial intercourse with Timbuctoo, Soudan, and the Senegal. They also sometimes trade to Mogodor, but prefer selling their merchandize on the spot, not wishing to trust either themselves or their property within the Kingdom of Morocco; indeed, when a subject of the latter country becomes wealthy, he almost invariably retires to Zahara-Suz, or the neighbourhood of Wedinoon, in order to avail himself of the protection this territory affords to person and property. Many of the inhabitants of Suz are immensely rich. Their manner of life may be considered as partaking of the pastoral and agricultural state, and resembles that of the people of Wales, Scotland, and England, in the fifteenth century, particularly the tribes of the Monselemines and Mongearts, who chiefly occupy the southern frontier. The latter, although for the most part shepherds, are not so much versed...