234 REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
iiames_, in supplying the orthographical signs often want- 
ing in manuscripts. Thus Burckhardt has read lJJj^ 
Tegherry, the same name Avhich Kosegarten had read 
ljUj Taghazza^ which would bring the traveller into the 
country of Fez very far from the Sahara. Tas-hala, a 
commercial town is perhaps Tychyt : Aboulaten ^jj'X^^^ 
is confounded with Eyoulaten or Oualet. Maly or 
Mala is perhaps Sala Jl^, Nekda L\^j for Tagada 
&c. 
The places in the neighbourhood of Timbuctoo, ac- 
cording to Ben-Batouta^ are Kabera and Zaghah. We 
still know Cabra, and the second of these names reminds 
us of the Meczara of el-Edricy, and the Mar-Zaghah or 
Marzarah of other accounts. Thus the distance of the 
places with which M. Caillie became acquainted, and 
which in consequence 1 have placed upon the general map 
of the Travels, Tychyt, Oualet, Sala, Cabra, and Tim- 
buctoo, would nearly agree with the description of Ben- 
Batouta : I say nothing here respecting the direction of 
the rivers. 
Few itinerary distances are to be found in the rela- 
tions compiled from the discoveries of the Portuguese on 
this coast of Africa. They have carefully concealed the 
positive documents which they may have collected, lest 
the other nations of Europe should rival them in their 
commerce. We read in the Decades of Barros that they 
had much intercourse with the two kingdoms of Toucou- 
