330 REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
with the Tegasa or Tegazzah of Leo Africanus*. In several 
words beginning with L as L-Eksebi, L-Guedea, L-Eya- 
rac, L-Guim, the Arabic article al appears to me to be 
joined to the name by contraction, as in the vulgar pronun- 
ciation throughout Northern Africa. The words begin- 
ning with the letter n should perhaps be pronounced ain, 
which signifies a source or fountain. I hazard this con- 
jecture from the presence of wells at such places, and from 
the example of Ain-Salah, in the oasis of Touat, which is 
frequently written Ensalah^ or Nsalah, in a single word. 
It is difficult for Europeans to pronounce the guttural ^ , 
and they frequently leave a blank for it, as well as for the 
o and the ^. 1 presume, therefore that the names Nze- 
land, Nyela, &C.5 stand for Ain-Zeland, Ain-Yela ; but 
this supposition may perhaps be refuted by the ortho- 
graphy of the name of Hanalak or (Hen-Alak) 
place situated upon the route from the country of Galam 
to Morocco. 
I shall take this opportunity of giving the Arabian 
orthography of the names of several places belonging to the 
space between St. Louis, Timbuctoo, and Morocco ; I am 
* This place/' says Leo, " is a very abundant mine of salt, 
whiter than marble, at the distance of about twenty days' journey from 
any inhabited spot, and having wells of very salt water only." The 
author does not give its exact situation. See Descrip. Africcs, 1. 6, 
p. 425, Figur. 1559. 
