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passed between those two towns. Their lines of route 
intersected each other at a point nearer to Timbo than to 
Labe, but where there is no village ; at least the list given 
by M. MolHen does not present, at the point of meeting 
which results from the construction of the two routes, 
any name in common with the much more extended list 
ofM. Caillie. But the latter, in giving the position of 
Labe with regard to Teleouel, and that of Timbo with 
regard to Dite, will be found to agree with the itinerary of 
M. MoUien. In the list of the latter, we find indeed 
Cambaya and Bandeia ; but Bandeia, placed far north of 
Labe, is a totally different place from Bandeya, which is 
south west of it. The same may be observed of Cambaya 
to the north and near Labe, while the Cambaya of M, 
Caillie lies south-east of that place, and at a considerable 
distance. The description of the mountains, the cata- 
racts or falls of rivers, the physical aspect of places amid 
those lofty- mountains, (which in some respects may be 
called the Central Alps of Northern Africa), are feat ures 
common to both narratives.* This spot, as will be seen 
farther on, is a line of division between immense streams 
which flow from it in every direction. There is no less 
analogy between the observations of the two travellers 
* From this lofty range the Rio -Grande and the rivers of the 
Timannie flow to the west and south-west ; the Gambia, the Faleme, 
the Bafing or Senegal, to the north ; and the Dhioliba and its tribu- 
taries, to the east. It is probably connected with the mountains 
vulgarly called Kong, a word the true signification of which is 
mountain. 
