354 REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
days' journey from Sdgo. In like manner^ the arm, 
which separates in the environs of Sego, says M. 
Caillie, and rejoins the western branch at Isaca, explains the 
Balio and the Banio, which meet, (according to the 
Fellata), below Djeri (or Djenne). Our traveller, not 
having inquired the names of these branches of the river, 
could not be acquainted with them. Masera is here, like 
Massina, to the west of Djenne : I remarked that, in 
travelling from Time to Djenne, M. Caillie neither saw 
nor heard of the mountain or the town of Ounbari, nor 
of the road leading to Saccatou. 
The lake Debo or Debou is here placed as it was 
seen by M. Caillie, between Timbuctoo and the con- 
fluence of the two branches (at Isaca); it is called in the 
Arabic description Djebou. The name of this great lake 
is doubtless written ^x^, and I suppose that in this word, 
the is pronounced dhi, as at the Senegal. On this 
subject, 1 remark that, according to M. Caillie, the name 
of the town of Djenne is pronounced, in that country, 
in a peculiar manner, expressed here by Dhienn^, 
The same is the case with the name of Fouta-Dhialon 
which the English translator, after the Fellata, writes 
Fouta-Djalo In studying the Arabic nomenclature of 
* Similar instances have induced me long since to adopt the dh or 
gh in transcribing several African names, particularly in the word 
Dhioliba, independently of the meaning of the vvrord DMoli, which the 
natives would probably write 
