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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LI. 
already referred to in the historical sketch which I 
have given of the empire of Bornu ; and the only 
circumstances which these writers mention, with 
regard to the more eastern regions, are the general 
names of tribes, such as the Zoghawa and the Baj6*, 
mentioned by E'bn Said, and, on his authority, by 
Abu'l Feda, as related tribes. f 
The only author who distinctly speaks of these 
eastern regions is the Spanish Moor generally known 
under the name of Leo Africanus ; for it is he who 
describes in this eastern quarter a large and powerful 
kingdom which he calls Gaoga. This name, especially 
on account of its similarity to the name of the Son- 
ghay capital, as the latter was generally written by 
the Arabs, has caused a great deal of confusion, and 
has given rise to numerous gratuitous conjectures. 
But if we compare Leo's statements, which are cer- 
tainly very vague, and written down from memory 
* The difficulty with regard to the name Bajo is consider- 
able; for no such name as the Bajo is known, while the Dajo 
are a well-known tribe, who dominated Dar-Fur in the tenth 
century of the Islam, and even at the present day are called 
" nas Faraon." Nevertheless we cannot imagine that the name 
Bajo is a mere clerical error for Dajo, unless we would sup- 
pose those authors guilty of a very considerable mistake, as the 
Dajo seem to be of an entirely distinct origin from the Zoghawa, 
who belong to the great Teda stock, while the former appear to 
have originated in the mountainous district of Fazoglo, and the 
Bajo are expressly stated by those authors to have been the kins- 
men of the Zoghawa. The Bajo may be identical with the tribe of 
the Bedeyat. With regard to the Zaghay of Makrizi, and the Soka 
of Masudi, I have already offered an opinion on a former occasion. 
f E'bn Said, in A'bu '1 Feda, p. 158. 
