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is that of the Mosi, although the country is split into a num- 
ber of small principalities, almost totally independent of each 
other, and paying only some slight homage to the ruler of 
the principality of Woghodogo. The Mosi are called Morba 
(perhaps originally More-ba ; ba being, as Mr. Cooley informs 
me, a formative of personal nouns in the Mandingo language) 
by the Bambara ; they themselves give peculiar names to the 
tribes around them, calling the Fulbe, Chilmigo ; the Songhay, 
Marenga; the Gurma, Bimba; the Wdngara, Taurearga ; the 
Hausa people, Zangoro ; the Asanti or Asianti, Santi. The 
inhabitants of Gurma call the Hausawa, Jongoy ; but the 
name of the Fulbe they have changed only very slightly, calling 
them Fuljo in the singular, Fulga in the plural form. The 
Bambara give to the A'swanek or Swanmki the name Marka. 
With regard to the line of Mandingo or Wangara settle- 
ments, which extend through the whole breadth of this tract 
along about the tenth meridian of north latitude, I shall say 
more further on. I will here only remark that Mr. Cooley 
(" Negroland of the Arabs," p. 79) seems to have been right 
in his supposition respecting the original settlements of that 
eminent African race. 
Besides the nationalities mentioned, there are in the tract 
described several smaller tribes, the degree of whose affinity 
it is not so easy to determine, especially as the names are 
more or less corrupted by the traders : Tuksawa, Gurtinga, 
Basanga, well known also from other sources, with the chief 
places Larabu and Tangay, the Susamga, Samgay, Kantanti, 
Karkardi, Chokoshi, whose chief place situated on an eminence 
seems to be Gambaga, formerly supposed to be the name of 
a country ; Choksawa is probably only the Hausa form of 
Chokoshi. 
The Tombo* seem to have been very powerful in former 
times, extending probably to the very banks of the Niger at 
Timbuktu, and became known to the Portuguese from the 
* The Tombo call the Songhay " Jennawelam." 
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