IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 329 
M. Cailli^ knows nothing of the Island of Jinbala 
marked upon Park's map^ but he was not wholly a stranger 
to the name ; he mentions a tribe of Jinbalas to the north 
of Timbuctoo. 
I entertain doubts, which time alone can remove; 
respecting the names of many places, and 1 have therefore 
thought it better to preserve those names without alteration. 
I have only omitted, upon consultation with the traveller, 
letters which appeared useless to the pronunciation, or 
which might create difficulties. The names of such places 
as Brahihima no doubt require rectification ; the name of 
Abrahima, or Ibrahima, &c., are met with in some tra- 
vels. 
1 have suppressed the letter q and almost always the 
except before e or ?, confining myself to the use of c. The 
double ss merely expresses the sound of an initial S, The 
XV and oo of the English, which M. Caillie acquired the 
habit of using at Sierra-Leone, I have expressed upon the 
maps by ou\ the words in the text have been generally 
subjected to the same rules. 
• On the route to the Tafilet such names as Tamaroc 
and M-day ara, &c., occur on account of the use of the 
initial letters T and M which announce the vicinity of the 
Berbers. The wells of Trasas or Trazah should perhaps be 
pronounced T-ghazah or T- ghazzah, which will correspond 
