JEWISH JEWISH TRADERS IN AFRICA are am known to have no had d deport fr for CG commerce there them in th the 6 fit F 1 f tourney century to tawa of the ilia fifteenth century b hod it 1 trading ding posts peace ID 11 nort northwest bucat deft and carried tried on go a vast commerce ath hi onno carl natives datives foe from the so sahara b am to the art allan tic and train from Alge lift to the alg r m ac cording to letterii recently discovered by charles tie de la in Ron non clere clece librarian of tie fhe national library 1 in france franc and ad pub by br th the national gengi plon society hitherto africa h ima not at fig at all in medieval history it was called the dark cm continent sot all nhen sujey and livingstone penetrated it about a conmey century BEO the letter lettera recently discovered nere ere written in 1447 by antonio antonia ft a cie genoese a ett ettlene leve belLe bellied sed to be tile I 1 onar ly athan ri the jews to p penetrate C strate their trae trade region TY T Y w ere am written wells ft fi om timbuktu ani tenet bount timbuktu was the ot at tic lie west african plains plain and amount t the h center at er of camel alanl faille that the beat and ad le baley icy of egypt tor foe the gold of timbuktu and the precious sit sill from Te gimse taller was wag an oasia too con mining from to villages and each aach village had a chief ahe civilization of that data a was advanced adran ced enough for far the resident to isla a census of their popular this was waa done when tile the people ot of timbuktu and a rival I 1 city gao were numbered to decide a s eager bust bui also nes I 1 tas as done on go a large scale