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Abulfeda, and Leo, speak of it, yet it would be advancing too far within the 
region of conjecture, in this place, to attempt to decide whether it has any 
commuHication with the western waters. I shall therefore reserve this dis- 
cussion till the last ; that it may not be allowed to have any weight in the 
decision of the great question concerning the continuity and direction of the 
Niger. Having therefore, as I conceive, established the fact of a continua- 
tion of the waters from Manding to Wangara, I shall next proceed to in^ 
quire into the authorities for the direction of the stream. 
2. The Direction of the Course of the Niger. 
Ocular demonstration has shewn, that its course is to the eastward ,sls fat 
as Silla : and no reasonable doubt can be entertained that it continues the 
same course to Houssa, 400 miles farther -to the eastward, even if the infor- 
mation communicated to Mr. Park, could be doubted. For the Moorish 
merchant before -quoted, told Mr. Beaufoy, that he had himself descended 
the JoKba, from Kabra to Houssa, although he had forgot the exact number 
of days employed in the navigation ; and whether it was 8 or 10 days, 
fMr. Park was told 11}. But one circumstance dwelt on his mind; which 
was, that " by the favour of a brisk wind, t-hey returned to Kabra, against 
the stream, in as short an interval as they went down." (This is no new fact 
to those who are accustomed to inland navigations, even of the natural 
kind.) 
The same Moor added, " that from liomsa, going still with the stream, 
boats went to Jinnee* and Ghineaj near the latter of which was the sea, 
into which the Neel (or Niger) discharged itself." That this Ghinea lies to 
the eastward of Houssa and Tombuctoo, has been -already shewn ; and that 
at the distance of 40 land journies. 
Edrisi says that the navigation froiji Ghana to Tirka (which latter is in the 
way to Wangara, admitted by the same authority to lie to the east of Ghanatj 
• It is certain that one city of Jinne or Jinnee stands above Tombuctoo and Houssau 
t Edrisi, p. g, 11, and 12. 
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