6 Journey of a Mahomedan Priest 
situated along the north bank of the Niger, the inhabitants of 
which are known by the appellation of Muley Ismahel’s people, 
a great Arab chief, whose empire extends along the southern 
skirts of the great desert. He performed the journey from 
Kano to Kashana G&<S, generally written Kashna and 
Kassina, in five days, travelling W. by 8. through districts some- 
times verdant, occasionally sandy; the natives are Maho- 
medans, of a very deep black complexion, of commercial habits, 
and not disposed to quarrel, or make war; the country of 
Zanfara lies to the southward of Kashana, according to infor- 
mation received there by the Priest. 
Proceeding ina direction considerably to the southward of west, 
he arrived after a tedious journey of twenty days at the town of 
Nufi, situated on the Niger, which is here called Kuorra ecu, is 
only about four hundred yards broad, and pursues a course a 
little to the southward of east with great rapidity, into the na- 
tions of the Kafirs. On his route from Kashana, he passed many 
inconsiderable rivers running from north to south, traversed 
a country tolerably clear and fertile, though occasionally inter- 
spersed with extensive deposits of sand, and as he approached 
Nufi, met with many villages, at all of which he received cordial 
welcome, being inhabited by tribes of the purest Mahomedan 
faith. Nufiis but an insignificant town, and is full of pagans, 
a circumstance which appeared to have given Mahomed great 
concern ; it is situated on the left bank of the Niger, and further 
from its source than Boussa, where many coinciding reports 
agree, that our unfortunate countryman, Mungo Park lost his 
life by shipwreck*. He asserts most positively, that the river 
runs due east from Boussa to Nufi, and inclines a little to the 
southward after leaving the latter town; circumstances which 
* The following statement of a native of Yawoori, now residing in Sierra 
Leone, is given nearly in the manner in which it was related in my pre- 
sence, October, 1891. ‘‘ My name is Duncanoo, I was born at Brinée 
Yawoori, and was there about sixteen or seventeen years ago, whena 
ship with two masts made her appearance on the Joliba. As she seemed 
to be passing the town, and as the king was desirous of knowing what 
people were in her, he sent off eight canoes (in one of which was a red bull, 
