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Songhay. 
A.D. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
the whole of the neighbour- 
ing part of Negroland, inclu- 
ding Ghanata. In the very year 
mentioned, this place, which 
carried on at that time a most 
flourishing trade with Sijil- 
mesa, was visited by the Arab 
geographer, E'bn Haukal.* 
Kugha (Kukia) was at that 
period so powerful that the 
king of Audaghost thought it 
prudent to make presents to 
the king of that place (the 
king of Songhay), in order to 
prevent him from making 
war upon him. Nevertheless 
twenty-three Negro kings 
are said to have been tribu- ; 
tary to another king of Aiida- i 
ghost, named Tinezwa, in the 
fourth century of the Hejra. 
— The site of Audaghost is 
quite evident from El Bekri's 
excellent itinerary : — " You 
march five days in the sand- 
hills of W aran, till you come to 
the copious well of the Bern 
Wareth ; then further on the 
well Waran ; then a well wa • 
tered district of three days." 
At the same time the abun- 
dance of gum trees near 
Audaghost proves distinctly 
that the distance of fifteen 
days intervening between Au- 
daghost, or Ghanata (near 
Walata), is to be reckoned 
in a westerly direction, and 
that Audaghost therefore is 
to be sought for in the neigh- 
bourhood of Tejigja and Kasr 
el Barka, and not to the north- 
east of Walata. I shall say 
more on this subject in 
another place. — At that time 
Aulil was the great place for 
salt. 
* Journal Asiatique, i. 1842, p. 50. 
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