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miles, for the ten journies ; and Kamaliah itself falls in lat. 12° 46'-; 227-^- 
from Sego, in a direction of W 21 S; corrected by the allowance of 17° 
variation. 
The town of Bammako, where the Joliba first becomes navigable (or 
perhaps to which point it is navigable upwards, in a continuous course 
from Tombuctoo), lies about fifty miles short of Kamaliah.* It is reckoned 
by the natives, ten journies only from Sego. t 
At Kamaliah the source of the Johba (or Niger), was pointed out to 
Mr. Park, at a bearing of south, a very little west, seven journies distant ; 
and for these, he allows _i 08 G. miles. The name of the place is Sankary, 
and seems meant by the Songo of D'Anville ; which, however, he sup- 
posed to be at the source of the Gambia river, in the kingdom of Mandinga. 
Such were the crude ideas heretofore entertained of this geography. 
Here it may be proper to mention, that Mr. Park, whilst at Kooniakarry, 
in Kasson, in his way out, meditated a route to the south-eastward, through 
Kasson, Fooladoo, and Manding ; which route was to have brought him to 
the Joliba in twenty days. The place on the Joliba is not mentioned : 
possibly it might be Yamina. This route, however, he was not permitted 
to take. Had he pursued it, his personal sufferings might probably have 
been less; but our knowledge of the geography would probably have been 
less, also. 
It has been mentioned, that the space between Jarra and Kamaliah, is 
checked by the report of the road distance between them. It is proper 
also to state, as a further proof of the consistency of the respective posi- 
tions of Jarra and Kong, that the distance across, agrees generally with the 
report of the Shereef Imhammed, who says, that Yarba, (meant for Yarra, 
or Jarra,) is eighteen to twenty days journey to the NW of Gonjah, 
meaning Kong. (Proc. Af Assoc. chap, xii.) Mr. Park was told that 
* Bammako, by Mr. Park's original bearings, lies from Sego W 8*" S, 178 G. miles : 
and Kamaliah W 7°!^ N, 5 if. These are corrected to W 25" S, and W 9°^ S. 
f Perhaps the long journies of the slave caravans, such as Mr. Park experienced, to 
the westward of this place. 
