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miles of water-course from the bead of the Niger, above Manding, to the 
eastern extremity of Wangara ! 
In addition to these authorities, I may state from Leo, that the people of 
Tombuctoo convey their merchandize in boats (or rather canoes) to Ginea, 
by the Niger : and that at Kabra they embark for Melli, also. But it is proper 
to be noticed, that he says (p, 249), that this communication with Ginea 
takes place in the rainy season only (July, August, September), which would 
imply a deficiency of water for navigation, at other seasons.* Leo, how- 
ever, certainly never saw the Niger, although he seems to report himself an 
eye-witness of many particulars relating to it. His intelligence is therefore 
often to be suspected ; though it has probably happened, that being regarded 
as an original author, instead of a compiler, he has given weight to the 
systems of Edrisi and Abulfeda, respecting the course of the Niger. 
Gatterer, as I have hinted before, calls the Niger, Guin, as well at Tok- 
rur and Ghana, as at Wangara.t Now we learn from Mr. Park, that the 
northern branch of the Niger, above Tombuctoo, passes by the town of 
jinbala, and collect also from Labat, that it h named the river of Guin : 
and here we have the same name extended even to Wangai^aj a presump- 
tive proof of the prolongation of the same river ! 
Edrisi speaks of the same Niger, or Nile of the Negroes, ;J; also, at 
Kauga, 10 journies to the east of Wangara ; from which we collect that 
he must have supposed, that this emanation of the Egyptian Nile (as he 
supposed it to be) first ran to the north, and then turned to the west, 
through Nigritia. And if any consequence can be deduced from his account 
of the conveyance of salt, along the Niger to Kauga, where the catalogue 
of places supplied, ends, we should conclude that he supposed the navigable 
part of the river, ended at Kauga. 
Although there can be no question that a river named Nile (or rather 
Neel), passes through the quarter of Kauga, Angimi, &c. since Edrisi, 
* If this report of Leo- has any particular meaning, and as the river in question carries 
a great body of water at all seasons, one must suppose that there are falls or rapids, ia 
the river, when in its low state. Time may discover. 
f Hartinann, p. 32, 48, 51. J Edrisi, p. 7, and 13. 
