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the E. N. E. of Time, (east by the compass)^ but not 
ten days to the east as appears by the journal.* At 
Tiara a part of the caravan directed their course upon 
San sanding, and to the N. W., according to M. CailUe 
(the line traced on the map gives the true N. N. W.) ; 
agreeably to the information which he obtained at Badia- 
rana. Caya is nine days to the north, and Sego nine days 
farther on ; now Sego (as it is placed upon the map, as 
I have elsewhere said)t is situated due north by the com- 
pass, with respect to Badiarana^ but the eighteen 
days' journey, if they really exist, must be very short, 
occasioned probably by the stagnant waters, and other 
obstacles, which render a winding course necessary. The 
situation of Cay aye is determined by its bearing upon 
Couara, five days to the N. N. W., which places it, as 
it should be, half way upon the road between Badiarana 
and Sego. This spot, Couara, doubly merits our pre- 
sent attention. I have had occasion, in another work, to 
remark that this is a generic word, the sense of which is 
analogous to that of river. Here we see beside a 
village of this name a pretty considerable river called 
Couara-ba, that is to say river-river ; we have some 
examples of a like denomination in Ba-ba, and other 
names of the same kind ; an additional reason for not 
identifying rivers and currents on account of the simili- 
tude of their names, because it is above all things neces- 
* It is nearly due N. E. 
t See, farther on, the tracing of the course of the river. 
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