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termined and traced out on the maps : M. Caillie is amply 
justified in not having noted these particulars, knowing 
that M. Partarrieu was in possession of more accurate ma- 
terials ; whatever accounts or geographical observationg 
the latter traveller has transmitted being every way worthy 
of attention. Information is wanting respecting the de- 
sert space which on this side separates Cayor from the 
Ghiolof, respecting Potaco in the country of Bondou, and 
the whole transverse line from Gandiolle to Boulibane, 
the capital of that state. M. Caillie left Boulibaba for Ba- 
kel, and returned with his fellow-travellers to St. Louis 
by water, without having any new observations to make 
upon the road. 
M. Caillie's third journey is more important, not only 
on account of its object, his initiation into the African 
manners and customs, and his preparation for an expedi- 
tion into the interior and all its attendant hardships but 
more particularly for the curious descriptions which he has 
given of the journeys of the Moors in the deserts, of their 
stations hitherto nearly if not wholly unknown, and of the 
running or stagnant waters which he met with. It is to 
be wished that it had been possible to trace these positions 
upon the map ; but I had not the means of fixing them 
with sufficient exactness. It will be remarked in reading 
this relation that the residence of the King of the Braknas 
is continually varying ; he frequently dwells in the vicinity 
of the river Senegal and of the station known by the name 
of the Braknas. But in the wet season he penetrates far- 
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