280 REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
to the ocean has been felt,* but it has not been advanced 
far enough, and has still been retained in nearly the 
same parallel, instead of being brought at the same time 
farther north. 
If the objection be admitted that M. Cailli^ has 
carried his route by water too far west, the result would 
then be that his route from Timbuctoo to Fez must have 
been carried too far east : now these two results are op- 
posed to each other, since it is the same line of route, 
and the same bearing, which lead from Couroussa to Sego, 
from Sego to Timbuctoo, and from Timbuctoo to Fez. 
One powerful consideration is that M. Beaufort has 
fixed and ascertained the position of the town of Eli- 
man^, eastward of Bakel, by a great number of observa- 
tions ; this is the present capital of Kaarta. From that 
place travellers are daily going to Sego ; our unfortunate 
countryman was himself on the point of proceeding 
thither, and would have done so but for the destitution 
caused by the pillage of which he was a victim, and which 
compelled him to turn back. He was then told that 
Sego was only at ten days' distance; that the bear- 
ing of Elimane with regard to Sego was E. S. E. ; and 
* M. Walckenaer, as I have elsewhere said, was among the first 
to acknowledge the necessity of this alteration. See Recherches, &c. 
See also Vol. II, of the Memoires de la Sociefe de Geographie, and its 
Bulletin or Recueil periodique. 
