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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 anjr 
communication with the western waters. I shall therefore reserve this discus- 
sion 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 continuation of the 
waters from Manding to Wangara, I shall next proceed to inquire 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, as far 
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 Joliba, 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, 
(Mr. Park was told 11). But one circumstance dwelt on his mind; which 
was, that " by the favour of a brisk wind, they 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 Houssa, going still with the stream, 
boats went to Jinnee* and Ghinea; 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 from Ghana to Tirka (which latter is in the 
way to Wangara, admitted by the same authority to lie to the east of Ghanaf) 
* It is certain that one city of Jinne or Jinnee stands above Tombuctoo and Houssa. 
f Edrisi, p. 9, if, and 12. 
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