Show JEWISH TRADERS IN IM AFRICA are known to have had depots for commerce there in the fifteenth century jews of the fifteenth century had trading posts in northwest africa and on a vast coin commerce mece with tile tho natives from the sahara to the atlantic and from algeria to tile the niger according to letters recently ly descos discos discovered crad by charles do de in Hon Ilon clere librarian of the national library in france und and published by tile the national geographic society Bo clety hitherto africa has haa not figured it at all in medieval history it wan called the dark continent when stanley and livingstone penetrated it about a century ago tito tho lettjr recently discovered were written in 1447 by antonin malfante Mal fonte a genoveso citizen believed to be ba alfo only christian the jews allowed to penetrate their trado trade region thoy they were written from timbuktu and taunt timbuktu was has tile chicago ot of the west african plains rind and bount the center of camel caravan traffic that exchanged the wheat find and barley of egypt for the powdered gold ot of timbuktu and the ilia precious salt from bount was an oasis containing from to villages and each village had a calef tito the civilization of that date was advanced enough for tile the residents to take a i census of theli th ele populations 1 this was done when tile the people of timbuktu and a rival julty city ono gjere cre numbered to decide 19 0 wager busl 1 ness iness was done on a large scale |