favourite dances there, 172, 173. Prices of provisions there, 177. Their quality, ibid. 178. State of education there, 186, 187. Number of Mosques, 199. Manner of selling slaves there, 268. Their condition, 288. Meteorological Register, kept at, 355—359. _Mukni_, (Mohammed el), Bey of Fezzan, character of, 3. Account of the manner in which he obtained his power, ibid. 4. Expresses himself favourable to the mission to Africa, ibid. The author introduced to him, 5. Extirpates the Waled Suliman tribe of Arabs, 55. His people live at free cost, among the natives, 64. His entry into the town of Sockna described, 70—72. In what manner he collected his tribute, 74. Ceremonies paid him on his departure from Sockna, 80. His reception on approaching the town of Morzouk, 88. His sentiments on English customs, 89. His lenity to one of his concubines, 91. Expedition of, against the Arab tribe of Tibboo Borgoo, 106. Ungenerous conduct of, to Messrs. Ritchie and Lyon, 117, 119. Invades the defenceless people of Kanem, 129. His barbarous treatment of the captives, ibid. Is apprehensive of being superseded by the Bashaw of Tripoli, 163. Whom he endeavours to propitiate, 164. Prepares for flight, 165. Is continued in his office, 263. His treacherous intentions towards Messrs. Ritchie and Lyon, 165, 166. Cultivates acquaintance with some Arab Sheikhs, 168. Extraordinary dress of his children, 176. Costume of his court, 176, 177. Has a carriage constructed for him, 179—181. Ceremonial of marrying one of his cast-off women, 185. Sources of his revenues and their amount, 188, 189. Anecdote of his treachery to a trader, 198. His reception of his son, on his return from a slave-hunting expedition, 261. Suggestions for preventing his predatory incursions into the Negro kingdoms, 281. His expedient for securing his duty on captured slaves, 268. _Music_ of the Tibboos and of Fezzan, 234. _Negroes_, ill treatment of by the Mohammedans, 79. Painful march of some liberated Negroes, across the deserts, 92. Account of the traffic in, 120—122. And of the songs of the captive Negroes, 336, 337. Amiable character of the women, 140. In what manner the Negroes are taken captives, 255. Markets for the sale of, 263. Their condition in Fezzan, 287. Especially at Morzouk, 288. Sufferings of some Negroe-captives in their journey across the deserts to Tripoli, 296, 323, 325, 329, 332, 343. Scanty allowance of food to them, 297. Their cheerfulness, under all their sufferings, 341, 342. _Neshoua_, (well of), 297. _New Year’s Day_, Mohammedan rejoicings on, 185. _Nil_, or Niger, a river of Bornou, notice of, 127. Its course, 145, 148. _Nufdai_, (mountain), 81, 309.