IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 357 
marigots, the outlet of which was seen by M. Caillie** 
Thus the only two native tnaps (if they may be so called) 
which we possess, and the recent descriptions of two 
Africans, all confirm the discoveries of M. Caillie, who 
was entirely unacquainted with them. 
A corroborative testimony is that of Park himself. 
Similar names will be found in the two narratives for cer- 
tain indigenous productions and for several instruments 
employed in the arts. The Mandingo words and names 
are either the same or analogous in the two narratives. 
In a preceding article, I think I have sufficiently 
shewn the agreement of M. Caillie's observations with 
those of other distinguished travellers, Mollien, Watt, and 
Winterbottom, and Major Laing. The particulars of Major 
Laiug's death collected by our traveller at Timbuctoo, and 
afterwards on the very theatre of the catastrophe, so far 
from contradicting those obtained either by the English 
Consul at Tripoli, or by the governor of the Senegal, con- 
firm all the important circumstances of bothf. 
We did not learn from the first travels of Clapperton 
the name of the prince reigning at Timbuctoo ; it was even 
imagined that the supreme authority resided at that period 
ill a female ; and when M, Caillie informed us that the 
* The comparison of these two African maps with the accounts of 
Isaaco and Amadi-Fatouma, Mungo Park's guides, affords results not 
unworthy of attention : but I have not room to deduce them, 
t See " Quarterly Review." See also " Reflexions sur I'etat des 
Conmissances relatives an Cours du Dhioliba, page 27. 
