356 REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
The Banimma of the maps cannot flow parallel with 
the great river, as 1 have explained above*. 
It would not be uninteresting to compare with this 
draught the pretended map of Bello himself, which Clap- 
perton has giv^n in his first travelsf. Five or six sites 
only are connected with my subject ; Djenne is here, as 
in the other, placed between two branches of the river, (a 
fresh point of conformity with our traveller) and the 
Massina is separated from it by the vrestern branch. 
There again the ?• is substituted for the 7i ; (and I presume 
for the same reason) for it is there spelt Jesni or Jenri, 
and MashiraJ. 
For want of room, Bello has placed Sego and Masina, 
much too near together, as vrell as Fouta and Djenne. 
The city of Timbuctoo (written Tonbaktou) is not less 
misplaced by the august geographer ; but he has marked 
between it and Mashira (Massina) a large tributary or off- 
branch : this is probably one of the four rivers which his 
secretary has indicated in the same space, and one of the 
* I have however somew^here seen this name translated by Black 
River; the Banimma is marked on the eastern side, as weli as the 
Balio. 
f The Narrative of Travels' and Discoveries in Northern and Cen- 
tral Africa, 1)1/ Major Denham and C. H. Clapperton. London, 1826, 
page 109 of Clapperton's journal. 
I I perceive also the name of Jerry amongst those of the districts 
subject to Mohammed-Labou : (Massina, Temboctou, Jerry) does this 
name stand for Jenne ? 
