REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
§ III 
OF THE NOMENCLATURE. 
I shall not here offer to the reader a general list of 
the names of towns and villages, or of the different na- 
tions, states and districts visited by M. Cailli^ during his 
travels ; this duplicate labour is rendered quite unneces- 
sary by the minute list of the Itinerary* contained in this 
volume, and by the journal itself, both of which I recom- 
mend it to the reader to consult upon this subject. My 
object is merely to make some remarks upon the method 
of retracing these names and upon a few other relative 
points. The nomenclature is so much the more important 
in the compilation of African maps, as inattentive travel- 
lers frequently confuse generic appellations with proper 
names and vice versa ; or they spell the same name in se- 
veral different ways, or in writing various names they lose 
sight of the trifling differences by which they are distin- 
guished. Hence the faulty multiplication upon the maps 
of places which do not exist, and on the contrary the sup- 
pression of many which do. The difficulty is great, par- 
ticularly with respect to countries recently explored and 
the language of which is unknown. I have chiefly confined 
myself to obtaining the names from the mouth of the 
* See Chapter 3. 
