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miles of water-course from the head 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, however, cer- 
tainly 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 ori- 
ginal 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 as Tokrur 
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 is named the river of Gum : and here we 
have the same name extended even to Wangara; a presumptive proof of 
the prolongation of the same river ! 
Edrisi speaks of the same Niger, or Nile of the Negroes, * also, at Kauga, 
10 journies to the east of W angara ; 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, Sec. 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, in 
the river, when in its low state. Time may discover. 
f Hartmann, p. 32, 48, 51. % Edrisi, p. 7 and 13. 
