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water, may either apply to the lake Dibbie, or may be African hyperbole. 
The sense appears clear enough. 
I have extracted in a note, the intelligence concerning the Great Water : 
and also that, concerning the Nyalas. Mr. Park has also heard of the 
Nyalas, or Gaungays, but is clearly of opinion that the interpreter of Mr. 
Watt, either misunderstood the story, or was himself misinformed. * 
* " 1 had a good deal of conversation with some men of a particular tribe of Man- 
dingas caXUd Nyalas. These are great travellers, and much respected by all the nations of 
Africa. It is from this nation that all the Gaungays or workers in leather, come ; and 
they are likewise employed as the speakers on all embassies : as they are not only good 
orators, but are so far privileged, that no one, not even kings, can take offence at any 
thing they say. Any one who travels with them, is sure of being protected ; and, to use 
their own terms, they can pass between contending armies, who will defer the battle till 
they have passed. I inquired about Tombuctoo," &c. — One of them said, that " about 
a month's journey beyond Teembo, we should come to a large Water, which our eyes 
' would not be able to reach across ; but which to the taste was sweet and good: that we 
should then coast along, touching at different towns for refreshment; but that there was 
one country inhabited by bad people, who would rob and murder us, if they could ; 
where we should not stop,, but keep far out, at a distance from the shore ;" &c. They 
engaged to carry him thither for the price of four slaves. [Watt's Journal, MS. p. 1 8 1 . J 
