IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 347 
Fouta-Dhialon^ and the means afforded by the descrip- 
tions of M. Caillie for forming an idea of the configura- 
tion of the country^ or the relations which exist between 
the situations of the different basons, I must refer to 
what 1 have said in § II. (articles 9, and 3) ; I shall 
also refer to the same for the positions of various countries, 
pompously called kingdoms by travellers or writers. 
Although he did not receive either from government, 
or from any learned societies, those questions or instruc- 
tions which might have guided him in his course, M. 
Caillie has observed much; if he has not treated his 
subject very profoundly, if indeed he has but glanced at 
it, he has at least opened the road to his successors. 
in duodecimo fere milliario ; hie mercatores ad Ginese aut 
Melli regnum navigare cupientes, naves conscendunt. 
Hujus tam cives quam aedificia Tumbuti sedificiis atque 
civibus non admodum sunt inferiora : hue Nigritse navigio 
undique confluere solent. In hac civitate Tumbuti rex 
judicem quemdam constituit, qui lites inter eos compo- 
neret : molestum enim erat toties in anno eam ob causam 
eo proficisci. Ego hie regis fratrem Abu-Bacr, cognomine 
Pargama, novi hominem, colore quidem nigrum, caeterum 
animo atque ingenio candidissimum. Frequentissimi hie 
exoriuntur morbi, qui rempublicam mirum in modum 
minuunt. Idque propter ciborum ineptissimam commix- 
tionem : pisces enim lacte, butyro atque carnibus commis- 
cent ; estque hie preecipuus fere Tumbuti cibus. 
