What's This About?

A native merchant of morocco said he was surprised to find that he could understand irish conversation. A fellow called lieutenant colonel chesney m who had written an account called the expedition the euphrates and tigris also wrote about a similar incident. So it's all these separate reports of people claiming irish people can understand the dialect, specifically of north africa, that has him writin this paper going, what the folk is this about? And then he goes on and shows a letter that he h'd written to a fellow in 18 forty five who was involved with some egyptian society,. The fellow writes back to him and says, a a few years ago in d