Adams did not know if the king had any family.
For a considerable time after the arrival of Adams and his companion, the people used to come in crowds to stare at them, and he afterwards understood that many persons came several days journey on purpose.
The Moors remained closely confined in prison, but Adams and the Portuguese boy had permission to visit them.

At the end of about six months, a company of trading Moors arrived with tobacco, who after some weeks ransomed the whole party.
Timbuctoo is situated on a level plain [*], having a river about two hundred yards from the town, on the south-east side, named La Mar Zarah.

The town appeared to Adams to cover as much ground as Lisbon.
He was unable to give any account of number of its inhabitants, estimated by Caillie to amount to 10,000 or 12,000.

The houses are not built in streets, nor with any regularity, its population therefore, compared with that of European towns, is by no means in proportion to its size.

It has no wall nor any thing resembling fortification.