| Description | "Collected from the statement of Mahamed Misrah". Chronicles the journey from Sego [Western Africa] primarily Southward and Eastward. Discusses journey times and directions of each leg, the inhabitants (primarily their religion and leaders), the landscape, and local trade. Laing also remarks upon the Niger River, and how its course is not depicted accurately in maps, as well as theories about it being a continuation of the Nile.
Laing often uses Arabic script to denote names of places and people.
Contains sketch of what appears to be an African tribesman on p. 1. Also contains a sketch of a man in Western military garb on p. 26. |