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five days he reached the salt mines of Teghazza ;* ten 
days afterwards, Tas-hal ; ten or twelve days farther on 
Aboulaten (Ejulat or Eiwelaten) ;t beyond that, Maly, 
at a distance of twenty-four days 5 from Maly to Zaghary 
(or Sagher), ten days; and thence to Karsendjou (or 
Karseckou). 
This place is washed by the great river, which is the 
JVile, and runs to Kabera and Zaghah (or Sagha) ; from 
Zaghah, the Nile flows towards Timbuctoo, Koukou 
(Kok), Mouly the last place of the country of 
Maly and Bowy (or Youy), one of the largest 
towns of the Soudan. Thence the Nile descends to the 
country of Nouba and passes Dongolah. From Karsend- 
jou, Ben-Batouta proceeded to the river of Sansarah, ten 
miles from Maly, which he left after a residence of two 
months ; some days afterwards he reached Timbuctoo 
071 the JVile, Koukou, Berdammah, and Takadda (or 
Nekda) . On his return to Sidjilmessa, he visited Touat, 
Kahor, Dekha, and Bouda; a journey of more than 
twenty- eight days or stages. 
The obscurity of this recital must be confessed : it 
arises chiefly from the different ways of reading proper 
* Perhaps t^Uo and not (SjJu Teghary as read by Burckhardt, 
or Tegherry, whicli would conduct him to the centre of the kingdom of 
Fez : M. Kosegarten read \j\Ju and Mr. Lee <Sj\Jd in one of the ma- 
nuscripts. 
t Oualet, according to M. Walckenaer. 
