_Quicquid scire licet; steriles nec legit arenas_ _Ut caneret paucis, mersitque hoc pulvere verum._ _Estne Dei sedes, nisi terra, et pontus, et aër,_ _Et cœlum, et virtus? Superos quid quærimus ultrà?_ _Juppiter est quodcunque vides, quocumque moveris!_ _Sortilegis egeant dubii, semperque futuris_ _Casibus ancipites: me non oracula certum,_ _Sed mors certa facit: pavido, fortique cadendum est._ _Hoc satis est dixisse Jovem.” Sic ille profatur_ _Servatâque fide, templi discedit ab aris,_ _Non exploratum populis Ammona relinquens._ Lucan, lib. ix. v. 564. * * * * * =POSTSCRIPT.= * * * * * =POSTSCRIPT.= It may be satisfactory to his Employers and to the Public, to receive some further account of Mr. Horneman, on termination of the travels more immediately the subject of his Journal. By a letter from Mr. Horneman, dated at Tripoly, August 19, 1799, it appears, that on coming to Mourzouk, the end of October, 1798, he was informed that a caravan was preparing to set out for Soudan in three divisions, of which the first was to depart in three days after his arrival. The period fixed for departure of the last division, allowed time for the necessary preparations, and Mr. Horneman had intended to proceed with it on a journey to the Agades and Cashna; but informations he afterwards received induced him to alter his purpose. He was told that the caravan was likely to meet with obstruction or attack in passing through a country of the Tuaricks, then at war with Fezzan; and he observed that the caravan consisted wholly of black traders, from whose intercourse or connection he was not likely to derive either useful consequence or patronage, which might facilitate his friendly reception with the Moors of interior Africa. These and other circumstances induced him to forego the present opportunity, and with the less regret, as, at no distant period, a great caravan was expected from Bornou, with which, on its return, he might travel to the greatest advantage. Whilst remaining at Mourzouk, himself and his servant Frendenburgh were seized with the country fevers: Horneman recovered, but his servant died.