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is known by the name of Addo, which I consider to 

 be the Avian term for white, this added some 

 confirmation to my ideas. On inquiring, however, 

 what knowledge Karissa had of the Bahr ul 

 Abiad, I found that he was entirely ignorant of such 

 a river, and when I modified the name, by calling it 

 the river of the Tokruree, or blacks, he instantly 

 conceived I was speaking of the Kalli, that is well 

 known to flow to the south and east of Kuffah into 

 the Indian Ocean, and by which caravans of slaves 

 are constantly passing between Zingero and the 

 coast of Zanzibar. There must, in fact, exist in 

 this situation a most available road into the very 

 centre of the continent of Africa, for I have sub- 

 sequently seen Nubian slaves who had been in the 

 service of Zaid Zaid, Imaum of Zanzibar, that corro- 

 borated this statement of Karissa in every particular 

 respecting the transit of slaves across the table land 

 of Abyssinia, from Sennaar to Lamoo on the Indian 

 Ocean, and so to the market of Zanzibar. 



I was, however, more interested in the account 

 I received of the white people, and which was as ex- 

 aggerated a relation, as many of the reports received 

 by some travellers respecting the Doko dwarfs. 

 To retail here all the absurd nonsense that Karissa 

 entertained me with would be sadly misappropri- 

 ating space, but I could gather from the reports 

 that a singular race of men live in the most jealous 

 seclusion, in a large desert-surrounded table land, 

 similar in many respects to that of Abyssinia. That 



