ZAPARA, SAHARA, or the Desert, a vast country of Africa, bounded on the north by Barbary, on the east by Fezzan and Cashna, on the south by Tombuctoo, and on the west by the Atlantic ocean. Zaara contains a variety of wandering nations, all proceeding from Arabs, Moors, and fugitive Portuguese, who took refuge there when the family of the Sherifs made themselves masters of the three kingdoms of Barbary.