Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figure 1. West Africa
- Preface
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- THE NARRATIVE OF ROBERT ADAMS
- Contents
- Introductory Details Respecting Adams
- Advertisement to the Map
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Notes and Illustrations
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendix No. I
- Appendix No. II
- CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS
- Index
Chapter 2
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figure 1. West Africa
- Preface
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- THE NARRATIVE OF ROBERT ADAMS
- Contents
- Introductory Details Respecting Adams
- Advertisement to the Map
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Notes and Illustrations
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendix No. I
- Appendix No. II
- CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS
- Index
Summary
Upon their arrival at Tombuctoo, the whole party was immediately taken before the King, who ordered the Moors into prison, but treated Adams and the Portuguese boy as curiosities; taking them to his house, where they remained during their residence at Tombuctoo.
For some time after their arrival, the Queen and her female attendants used to sit and look at Adams and his companion for hours together. She treated them with great kindness, and at the first interview offered them some bread baked under ashes.
The King and Queen, the former of whom was named Woollo, the latter Fatima, were very old grey-headed people. The Queen was extremely fat. Her dress was of blue nankeen, edged with gold lace round the bosom and on the shoulder, and having a belt or stripe of the same material half way down the dress, which came only a few inches below the knees. The dress of the other females of Tombuctoo, though less ornamented than that of the Queen, was in the same short fashion; so that as they wore no close under garments, they might, when sitting on the ground, as far as decency was concerned, as well have had no covering at all.
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- The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Barbary CaptiveA Critical Edition, pp. 35 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005