IN CENTRAL AFRICA. ^65 
tion of Cambaya, in respect to Timbo^ which latter, 
according to the natives, bears W. S, W. at two days* 
journey from Cambaya. Here, then, are five points well 
connected together, Tel^ouel, Labe, Dite, Timbo, and 
Cambaya, forming a whole, the main support of which 
rests upon Timbo*. From the nature of these data 1 
have had no hesitation in subjecting the route from 
Kakondy to them ; and the result has been that the 
hour's march proves to be a trifle more than three English 
miles, which, for the commencement of the journej^, is 
not extraordinary. 
But, be this as it may, the construction of this route 
upon the itinerary map has undergone no reduction or 
modification, and I have confined myself to designing 
as accurately as the scale would permit, all the angles of 
this line, the rivers which the traveller crossed or had 
sight of, the different elevations of the soil with his esti- 
mate of them, and in fact all the variations of the ground 
which he has carefully noted. 
At thirty-two miles from Kakondy is a fine river 
called Tankilita, a name which much resembles that of 
Tingalinta, marked in several maps at the same dis- 
tance;! and which word is perhaps pronounced Ten- 
* The two days' journey in a mountainous country must necessarily 
be valued at less than eighteen geographical miles each. 
See amongst others La Senegamhie pour servir h la nouvelle 
Histoire generale des Voyages de M, JValckenaer 8fc. par M. Dufour, 1828. 
