230 REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
mencement of the 16th century, and which the learned 
Hartmann has commented upon. While waiting for the 
benefit of the translation preparing by M. Amedee Jau- 
bert, I shall quote from the Latin version* the description 
of the countries which M. Caillie has visited, but which 
form only a very small portion of the theatre of his pere- 
grinations. According to el-Edricj^, Segelmassa or Sidjil- 
messa, a town in the country of Tafilet, is forty days' 
journey from the Soudan, that is to say, from the in- 
habited districts and fertile soil of this immense region ; 
it is also computed to be forty days' journey to Tocrur 
or Takrour, to Salla or Sala, and to Ouhl, Sala is on the 
northern and Takrour on the southern bank of a river 
called Nile. Sala is two days' journey from Takrour 
whether by land or water. 
The place named Oulil, described as an island pro- 
perly so called, is the great mart for salt in those parts, 
and is situated sixteen days' journey from Sala. East- 
ward of Takrour are several large towns ; Ghana, at a 
distance of twenty four days, and Berissa of twelve ; 
from the latter Aoudeghestf is twelve days' journey to- 
wards the north and the district of Lamlem six to the 
* See Geogr, Nubiens, by Gabriel Sionit., p. 7, 9, Paris, 1619, 
in-4to, and Hartmann, Edrisii Africa, p. 28 to 55 Siud pass. Getting. 
1795, 8vo. 
t Agadez, according to M. Walckenaer. See his learned Eecher- 
■ ches geographiques sur VInterieur de VAfrique Septmtr. p. 11, in which 
work almost all the materials which should be consulted by those who 
are studying the history of African discoveries are quoted and collected. 
