10 Journey of a Mahomedan Priest 
those countries which he passed through after crossing the 
Niger at Nufi, are yams, rice, and corn, the latter of which 
grows luxuriantly in most of the interior regions: the natives of 
those districts are a mixture of converts and pagans, but 
Mahomed regrets that while the proportion is materially in 
favour of Paganism, the Mahomedans are not very firm in their 
faith. From Mousi, turning towards the north-west, and pass- 
ing through various small towns and villages, about a day’s 
journey from one another, he arrived at Jenne, or Janne, o> 
in fifteen days, but did not fallin with any river running to the 
northward ; therefore we must still allow Park to be correct 
in laying down the land of Jimbala as an island formed by the 
separation of the waters of the Niger. ‘This place, though not 
as yet visited by any white person, is known to us asa large, 
important, and well-built town; it is situated at the termina- 
tion of a creek, which encroaches on the right bank of the 
Niger, is a great mart for the exchange of all kinds of African 
produce and European manufacture, has a regular market- 
place, and is much frequented by the Moors, who resort to it 
in large parties with loaded camels. Janne is not, however, 
an independency, being much under Moorish control, who, it is 
said, appoint and dismiss at pleasure a governor, or dharaboo, 
who, during his administration, has as much authority as any 
independent chief. Timbuctoo is governed in like manner, its 
superintendent being appointed by Muley Ismahel, the great 
Arab prince, of whom mention has been made in a former part 
of this Journal. The present governor is named El Hreidé Baka, 
but is not a Moor. The latter part of this information was not 
obtained from the Priest, but from various native travellers, 
whose statements fully corroborated each other: I shall only par- 
ticularize Setafa, the messenger to Sierra Leone from Dalhaba, 
king of Sego ; and Marmade Jumé, a great itinerant, who came 
from the Mousi country only eighteen months ago; the 
latter in his answers to many questions which I put to him 
agreed, in many instances, with the accounts given by the sailor 
Adams, but he never heard of a headman named Woolloo, who, 
according to Adams, was king when he was residing there; he 
