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away with them. Tliey did not understand the language of the 

 Nasamonians, nor did the latter understand that of their captors. 

 They were conducted by these little men across a marshy coun- 

 try, into a town whose inhabitants were black. A large stream 

 flowed before this town from west to east, and there were croco- 

 diles in it." 



Authorities now unhesitatingly state that this river could 

 have been no other than the Djoliba, or Niger as it is called by 

 cartographers and geographers. This river rises in a cafion of 



Tasmaniax. From The Pygmies, Quatrefages. 



the mountainous plateau of eastern Senegambia, where it is 

 known as the Djoliba or Joliba, flows northeast, then west, and 

 then southeast, to empty into the Gulf of Guinea near Cape For- 

 mosa. 



In the neighborhood of Timbuktu, 18° 5' 10" north latitude, 

 and 40° 5' 10" west longitude ; the river flows from west to east. 

 Says De Quatrefages, in Pygmies: "There" (Timbuktu) "the 

 river bends abruptly, and flows almost directly from west to east 

 as far as Bourroum, over a distance of over three degrees of 

 longitude, before turning toward the south to reach the Gulf of 

 Guinea. It is, then, between the first and the fourth degree of 



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